Re: Linux on an SGI Challenge L (fwd)
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> From owner-linux-smp-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Fri Dec 11 00:55:02 1998
> From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
> Message-Id: <199812101621.IAA84751@anchor.engr.sgi.com>
> Subject: Re: Linux on an SGI Challenge L
> In-Reply-To: <9812100859.ZM7179@taz.cs.utah.edu> from "Steven G. Parker" at "Dec 10, 98 08:59:11 am"
> To: sparker@taz.cs.utah.edu (Steven G. Parker)
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 08:21:47 -0800 (PST)
> Cc: ralf@uni-koblenz.de, andrewb@uab.edu, linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu,
> linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
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> Steven G. Parker wrote:
> | On Dec 10, 4:36pm, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> | > > Anyone care to make any comments on porting Linux to an SGI Challenge L
> | > > machine w/ (4) R4400 processors? Am I crazy to even attempt this?
> | >
> | > You're not crazy, after all Linux is already running on bigger iron and
> | > about to run on Sun's E10000. However you should checkout again what
> | > hardware you actually have on your system. A Challenge L is mostly like
> | > an Indy (which is supported), that is strictly uniprocessor. So
> | > your system either is not a multiprocessor system or not a Challenge L.
> |
> | Actually, the Indy system is a Challenge S. The Indigo^2 system is
> | a Challenge M. The Challenge L is the desk-side system and can indeed
> | support multiple processors.
> |
> | I can only comment on the model line - not on whether you are crazy or not :)
>
> The hardware is radically different. The only shared item is the cpu,
> and even it's used in a fairly different way. indy w/o graphics as
> challenge S, etc. is strictly a marketing idea.
>
> It's clearly doable, but you need a whole new set of hardware specs.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hmmm......
>
> Dave Olson, Silicon Graphics
> http://reality.sgi.com/olson olson@sgi.com
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