Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code project ideas
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/21/2006 12:14:00
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Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> wrote:
=20
> The projects relating to topics on this mailing list are:
>=20
> *  Port NetBSD to SGI Octane and Origin machines
>    NetBSD/sgimips currently runs on a number of SGI hardware, but
>    support for IP27 (Origin) and IP30 (Octane) is not yet available. An
>    Octane for development is available for pickup in Hoboken, NJ, USA.

And:

*  Improve the SGI bootloader --  Currently booting a sgimips machine
   requires different boot commands depending on the architecture. It is
   not possible to use the firmware menu to boot from CD.
   An improved primary bootstrap should ask the firmware for architecture
   detail, and automatically boot the correct kernel for the current
   architecture by default.=20

--=20
My other computer also runs NetBSD!
			http://www.netbsd.org

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