Subject: Re: Octane
To: Florian Laws <florian@void.s.bawue.de>
From: Jeff Smith <jeffs@atheros.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 02/22/2002 09:15:19
Florian Laws wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:35:10AM -0500, brenden grace wrote:
> 
>>I have an octane that i wouldn't mind seeing netbsd on. i know the
>>architecture is completly different from the O2 but i was wondering if
>>anyone had started a port on the octane?
>>
> 
> AFAIK the Octane architecture is somewhat similiar to the Indigo2 R10000
> with all the associated difficulties wrt the noncoherent caches.

The Octane was a whole new machine that is fully coherent and supports
one or two R10K processors.

jeffs