Subject: Re: SNI RM400
To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 11/11/2002 12:32:15
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:19:19PM +0100, Alexander Langer wrote:

 > I've got a SNI (Siemens-Nixdorf) RM400C machine which currently runs
 > SINIX 5.42.

Cool.

 > However, since it has a MIPS R4400 SC, Revision 5.0, I had a little hope
 > it might be able to boot the SGIMIPS kernels.

It is almost certainly not like the sgimips.

 > There seems to be support for the RM200 in the Linux-MIPS port, due to a
 > lack of a Linux machine I wasn't able to cross-compile a kernel for
 > linux-mips(el) yet, though, in order to try that.
 > 
 > Any chance I can get that running on NetBSD/sgimips?  It seems to be
 > the closest relation to me.

This platform will probably require a new port.  Thankfully, it's pretty
easy to throw a MIPS port together.

Interested in doign it?  :-)  (Don't worry, there are people who would
be willing to help you along :-)

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>