Subject: Re: Newbie question
To: Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>
From: Gerald Heinig <Gerald.Heinig@post.rwth-aachen.de>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/28/2001 22:02:15
"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote:

> 
> Well, the r4k Indigo has remarkably standard parts in it.  You should be
> able to port existing drivers for the ethernet and scsi and once those
> are up you're good to go.  The mips port already has r4k support in the
> tree and you should be able to use the ARCS console.  It shouldn't be
> that difficult a port.  I just don't have time to even think about it.

If I'm on the right track, then I do need doco for the HPC1.5 chip. The docs for HPC3 are on oss.sgi.com, and at the
moment I'm trying to get the doco for HPC1.5 off them.
The SCSI, Ethernet and serial I/O etc chips all hang off the HPC chip (according to the circuit diagram in the MC
document), so my assumption is that I need to figure that out, whatever happens.
Am I right there, or am I making things too complicated again?

Gerald

> 
> --
> Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>
> "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a
> good example."  --  Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson