Subject: Re: Indigo2 POWER
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Jeffrey M. Smith <jeffs@atheros.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/23/2001 01:33:01
Johan Danielsson wrote:

> Was there a working 64-bit IRIX for other machines at that time?

The 64-bit kernel effort was kick started by the R8000 comming.
So we had prototype code code on the R4400 (R4000 had 64bit bugs)
a short time before bring-up.

That step is probably fairly easy with NetBSD as the code is
fairly clean, and already running 64 bit on a few platforms.

jeffs