Subject: Re: R8k based Power Indigo2?
To: Rafal Boni <rafal.boni@eDial.com>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 08/11/2000 18:44:07
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:36:02PM -0400, Rafal Boni wrote:
> A friend-of-a-friend has what he claims to be an R8000-based Power Indigo2

> Basically, what I'd like to know is:
> 	(1) Is a port to this hardware even feasible?  Are there enough
> 	    docs to do it?

There more or less are for the Indigo2 aspect of it.

The problem for you is the R8000. It is *different* from other
MIPS CPUs in many ways, including TLB handling, and since it
was never used outside of SGI's own machines, documentation
of various vital bug workarounds are not publicly available.


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Soren