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>