On 10/3/07, Kumba <kumba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right now, Gentoo does have the best support for them (mine is running > 2.6.23-rc5 about 3.5ft from me as I type). But I do believe the debian guys > have been working on a debian install image for them too (tbm/ths, am I right on > this?) > > For the most part, Impact-based systems run great. You get X, unaccelerated, no > 3D, and a framebuffer. VPro, framebuffer, but no X. USB kinda weorks if you > have a PCI-Card Cage and a OHCI chipsets (UHCI is dead last I checked), and I > think EHCI works fine. Haven't tried much else beyond those PCI devices. I had wondered about being able to use any PCI card in that cage.. I'll have to give that a shot. > A lot of the other XIO Boards, outside of the Impact or Vpro boards, are wholly > untested, and likely won't work at all. Nor do I think dual head will work if > you have a second Impact card kicking around. > > For gentoo, we have an "RC6" livecd. I've played with building an RC7 several > times, but that got sidetracked about 2-3 months ago. I hope to resume work on > it soon. You can find that and the current netboots on your local gentoo > mirror, in the experimental/mips sub-folders. > > Further gentoo questions regarding this system should be directed to the > gentoo-mips ML; linux-mips here is more for distro-agnostic development. > > Have fun! (and what Proc, btw?) Single 195MHz. I've been looking at a dual-360MHz, but it's tough to win those auctions! Ed
