Re: Dropping support for R3000 based DECstation (r3k-kn02)
Hi,
>Thanks for your replies, Jeremy and Ulrich. May I ask what you
>actually use these machines for? IMHO the machines are so slow (and
>loud and big) that I personally don't see what people might want to
>do with them, but it would be good to hear from actual users what you
>do with the machines. This'd also give me an incentive to care about
>it. I suppose we could keep r3k-kn02 around for another release.
Well, my 5k/133 isn't too loud, it's more the old DEC RZ26L in it
which is :-) I've even used it to compile a kermit-mipsel-linux
on it and done some cross-platform testing of toy projects which
I deemed performance critical. When they are usable on that machine,
they are usable everywhere, even on a PDA.
So, it's more of a programmers toy to me, but I really like these
old boxes with their serial console:
delo V0.7 Copyright 2000 Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
Loading /etc/delo.conf .. ok
Loading /vmlinux ........ ok
This DECstation is a DS5000/1xx
CPU revision is: 00000230
FPU revision is: 00000340
Primary instruction cache 64kb, linesize 4 bytes
Primary data cache 128kb, linesize 4 bytes
Linux version 2.4.19-r3k-kn02 (root@repeat.rfc822.org) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Mon Oct 7 21:30:15 MEST 2002
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 06000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 24576
zone(0): 24576 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 console=ttyS2
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 32.75 BogoMIPS
Memory: 94476k/98304k available (2059k kernel code, 3828k reserved, 220k data, 100k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
TURBOchannel rev. 1 at 12.5 MHz (without parity)
....
So, if you decide to keep them supported, that would be highly appreciated.
I'll try to help with testing, but I can't say how much time I'll have
for that in the future,
TIA,
Uli
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