Quoting Daniel Sieger <dsieger@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>:

> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:01:59AM +0100, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> [snip]
>> Anyway, I could successfully boot netbsd (only to have the kernel
>> tell me that it only supports the serial console) and Gentoo Linux
>> (which wants to boot of from an NFS server which I haven't set up yet).
>> Looks like NetBSD doesn't support the O2 framebuffer device yet?
>
> Unfortunately, this is true. An explicit note was recently added to [1]
> as well as the sgimips install docs.

There's a Linux framebuffer driver for the O2 somewhere, and gxemul  
apparently does a fair enough job to run an O2 PROM image. I imagine  
getting some basic functionality going wouldn't be too hard..

Steve