Subject: Re: IP26
To: Matt Miller <idiot@slack.net>
From: Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 07/23/2001 14:35:47
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Matt Miller wrote:

>Is there any work being done on a port
>for IP26 (POWER Indigo2)?  I was so
>excited to check in today and see Indigo2
>that I didn't notice it was for IP22 til
>after my happy dance.

I'm guessing IP26 is r8k?  If so, then no.  NetBSD has no r8k mips
support.  I would assume porting priority will go to systems which
already have in-tree CPU support.  Somewhere in the port-sgimips
archives are authoritative responses from the SGI engineer who did the
IRIX r8k port about why such a port for NetBSD will be difficult.  The
consensus also seemed to be that few enough of these machines existed to
justify a porting effort.  You're more likely to see a port to IMPACT
Indigo2's (purple w/ r10k processors) I think than POWER Indigo2's.

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Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>

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