(Redirecting to port-mips@netbsd.org :)

	Well, we have a 'Hardware available/wanted' page:
	http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/hardware.html

	Could I encourage people to submit items for addition to
	the page, both available and wanted - offering to help someone
	interested in working on a port would definitely be worth an
	entry :)

	Dave/Scott - would you be willing to list your hardware?

	Toru Nishimura (nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp) was looking for a
	64bit capable pmax box to work on NetBSD/mips64 - maybe he might
	be interested in a r4400 or better SGI instead? Toru? :)

	IRIX used to use E?COFF, but now uses ELF.

		David/absolute

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> We run on mips r2k/r3k, on r4k/r4400/r4600. The locore code is known
> to work on the QED cores. We have both little- and big- endian ports
> in the tree. As perry says, all that's really needed is technical info
> and time on the part of a skilled/interested person.
> 
> The information you'd need includes details of how bootloaders work,
> to build bootblocks; and of device chips, i/o bus chips, and the
> addresses they're wired up at. Then it's a simple matter of
> cookie-cutting the existing MI drivers.  (And if IRIX uses ELF or
> ECOFF, you can use native-OS bootloaders at least to begin
> with. That's what I did on pmax.)
> 
> I've heard rumours of _interest_ from the direction of NASA Ames, but
> nothing more concrete.
> 
> (Historically, SGI also tended to be very tightlipped about their
> graphics hardware, which'd be a big obstacle to getting graphics
> working; you may well want to emulate IRIX so as to run the SGI
> product X/GL servers, but that's just a guess).
> 

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:

> If someone does start working on this for real, please have that person
> contact me...I have some SGI hardware (several 4D-series machines and
> accessories) that I'd be willing to loan or perhaps donate to the cause.

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Scott Bethke <kbethke@ezy.net> wrote:

> I'd be willing to put up an Indigo2 for the cause..