Re: debian-mips on cobalt hardware
I heard cobolt is about to ditch the MIPS appliance and go w/ pentium and
rackmounts.
If obsolete, maybe they will let me manufacture their boards in the pub domain.
--- Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:11:04AM -0500, Nathaniel Irons wrote:
> > I'm looking into buying the Cobalt Qube2, originally under the theory
> > that I could safely limp along with their webby admin system for a while
> > while I get my bearings running a box, and eventually replace their
> > weird, customized, somewhat elderly kernel and configuration with a more
> > current distribution.
> >
> > That plan predates my having read over materials such as:
> >
> > a) www.linux.sgi.com ("The Cobalt Qube support has never been
> > integrated into the official Linux/MIPS 2.1.x kernels"),
>
> This is correct - But i think cobalt published their changes along
> with their Kernels. These are 2.0 kernels but depending
> on How much time you have you might try to integrate those
> into 2.3 kernels ...
>
> > b) the horrifying, chaotic list archives at cobaltnet.com
> > (<http://ftp.cobaltnet.com/lists/cobalt-users/msg07124.html>),
> >
> > c) and the near-total lack of any cobalt discussion in Debian's mailing
> > list archives.
> >
> > Did I miss anything? Is it reasonable to ever hope to install a
> > functional debian on this apparently-bastard hardware?
>
> Fundamentals: AFAIK The cobalts are Little endian - That means
> you need the same port as the Siemens RMxxx and/or Decstations.
>
> Probably you will be happy running a Cobalt Kernel and using
> the Debian user space bins. Hopefully we will have a glibc 2.1.2
> before Christmas.
>
> Flo
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