On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:23:57PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote: > I've just got (for free :) an ancient MIPS ACER PICA 61 motherboard. > > Can anyone help/guide me to run Linux-MIPS on this machine ? > Is it still possible to run Linux on this architecture ? > > The motherboard is old (~1993) and it is very difficult to find > any documentations... AFAIK, this is version of ARC MIPS. > (mipsel) > > > This is Full-size AT board, AT power supply, 5 ISA slots, 8 SIMM > slots. The CPU is PACEMIPS R4000-50Mhz (x2=100 internal ???) by > Performance Semiconductor Corp.. NatSemi Ethernet/AUI onboard. > No IDE connector. One additional slot is not ISA, but maked as > IO an contains SCSI/Floppy/Serial/Perallel/Mice card. Another slot > is like reversed EISA (double) and marked as VIO (locabus video?). > Unfortunately, the original videocard is lost. :( Great. Because that was a S3 968 video card which for it's time was delivering quite a nice performance. > However it works fine with old CirrusLogic VGA card in ISA slot (old > ISA Trident 8900/9000 does not works). Linux has code for this system but it's suffering from severe bitrot. I still have the documents here so I could help you a bit if you were willing to resurrect the kernel - which should be relativly easy, also due to the system's similarity to another, somewhat better supported system, the Olivetti M700-10. Ralf
