> Hello people.
>
> I happen to have a Silicon Graphics Octane workstation here, and it i=
s
> lying around doing absolutely nothing. I would really love to have Ne=
tBSD
> on it, but the sgimips port does not support it.
>
> Is anyone working on it? Is there anything that I can do? I have some=
 free
> time comming up and I'd love to spend it working on NetBSD :) . I'm g=
ood
> at C, I know nothing about MIPS assembly and am willing to help. Any
> pointers to documentation/TODO lists/whatever?
>
> Just for kicks, this is my hinv -v:
>
> --->hinv -v<---
> 1 195 MHZ IP30 Processor
> CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.7
> FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0

I think this is going to be difficult.  I'm not sure how the coherency
issues are dealt with on the Octane, but this message talks about the
R10K I2 and the R10K-based O2:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2000/06/29/0006.html

Sorry.

Regards,

- H=E5vard