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Re: MIPS porting machine for Debian?



Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:19:53PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > > This is (apparently) not a standard Indigo 2, either.  It has some other
> > > framebuffer in it that the standard I2 didn't have.  I don't know much
> > > about SGI hardware, though I do know that this I2 is in a purple case,
> > > while others I've seen are in greenish cases.  Maybe that will tell some
> > > of you enough to discern what video hardware is in here.
> > 
> > It seems to be an "Impact ready" Indigo 2, maybe with a R10000 CPU.
> > You can find out the hardware data with the "hinv" command, either
> > from the PROM shell or from IRIX.
> 
> This is an R4400.

Intersting. I have an Indigo 2 Impact with R10000, its firmware
is 64bit only and can't use the supported 32bit kernels.

> But the Impact framebuffer might be what it's got.
> It's pretty irrelevant, really, as it's running with a serial console.

An ARC console should also be possible with a few changes in the
kernel source.


Thiemo


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