Subject: Re: Indigo Kernel
To: Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>
From: Gerald Heinig <Gerald.Heinig@post.rwth-aachen.de>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 02/27/2001 22:51:03
"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Gerald Heinig wrote:
> 
> >I'm working on an Indigo R4000 port at the moment. I don't know if anyone's doing an R3000 port. My guess is, no.
> >So it looks like you'll have to hack a kernel yourself... :-)
> >
> >That's all there is at the moment, as far as I know.
> 
> IIRC the hardware in the two machines is nearly identical except for the
> CPU. 

I seem to remember you saying that about the Indy and Indigo R4000.... :-)
There are enough differences to be a pain in the arse, but it's true, they're pretty close.

> There is already r3k support in the mips tree, so if the r4k IRIS
> Indigo port is done, it should be trivial to get an r3k version going.

OK, OK. I get the hint... :-)