There is some fairly low key MIPS work being done in the FreeBSD camp
with a focus on sgimips. I have heard a developer mention intent to
work on Octane support in the mailing list, but all that they do have
currently (mostly IP22 related) is still in an early state and being
worked on by primarily one person. The opportunity may exist to work in
conjunction with FreeBSD on the NetBSD side. As they've used netbsd's
code as their basis, perhaps it would be practical.

-Steve

On Thu, 29 May 2003 03:09:24 +0300 (EEST)
"Al. Andreou" <ee4299-REMOVE-@ee.teiath.gr> wrote:

> Hello people.
> 
> I happen to have a Silicon Graphics Octane workstation here, and it is
> lying around doing absolutely nothing. I would really love to have
> NetBSD on it, but the sgimips port does not support it.
> 
> Is anyone working on it? Is there anything that I can do? I have some
> free time comming up and I'd love to spend it working on NetBSD :) .
> I'm good at C, I know nothing about MIPS assembly and am willing to
> help. Any pointers to documentation/TODO lists/whatever?
> 
> Just for kicks, this is my hinv -v:
> 
> --->hinv -v<---
> 1 195 MHZ IP30 Processor
> CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.7
> FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
> Main memory size: 256 Mbytes
> Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
> Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
> Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
> Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
>   Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
> Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
> IOC3 serial port: tty1
> IOC3 serial port: tty2
> IOC3 parallel port: plp1
> Graphics board: SI
> Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
> Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
>   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 3) pci slot 2
>   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4128) pci slot 0
>   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4128) pci slot 1
>   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 5) pci slot 3
> --->hinv -v<---
> 
> 
>   Alexandros Andreou, ee4299 at ee.teiath.gr.
>   Undergraduate student, dept. of Electronics, TEI of Athens.
>