Quoting "mleopold@tiscali.dk" <mleopold@tiscali.dk>: > > > Btw: I also got my hands on an Octane (IP30) with an R10000 (195 Mhz) > - > > > I haven't tried to install on this one, but that might be interesting > too.. > > This one is also I/O coherent, so chances are much better than for IP28. > > Are you saying I might get this one working with the Debian boot-images > that I already tried, or? That's pretty unlikely. I am currently working on the Octane in what little spare time I can wrest away from work. On the good side, the octane peripherals seem generally the same as the Origin, so I'm finding a lot of similarities in the hardware for console and network (IOC3 chip), for instance. The memory map is different though, which means that barring some kernel hacking you won't get a kernel to boot on it from any existing boot image. I haven't gotten to the point of trying to make the video hardware work, although I do have a PCI shoebox I might try a Radeon PCI card in eventually. Feel free to join in hacking on it, you might be better at it than I am =) Erik -- Erik J. Green erik@greendragon.org
