On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:48:39 -0500, "Jason Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've got a few O2 systems over here but I haven't touched the for months >> and haven't used them with OpenBSD since 3.6/3.7. Even with the earlier >> OpenBSD releases, once you get past the SGI-isms, they work very well. > >Well on the OpenBSD sgi page, it says that the R12000 CPUs are >supported. Is it some other piece of hardware like disk controller or >something that prevents OpenBSD from running on an Octane? (Yoda Voice) "A processor the system makes not." (/Yoda Voice) The short, generic answer is architecture support is a matter of supporting the processor _AND_ all of the other chipsets used in the complete system design. Having software support for those "little" things like all the various buses is generally required to have a working system. If you're unable to talk to the memory controller or PCI bus controller or some other vital piece of hardware, being able to *just* compile code for a particular processor is not going to do you much good. You can sometimes get away with not supporting things that are not vital to system operation (e.g. not supporting the floppy drive on some alpha systems) but there's a lot of stuff besides just the processor that must be supported for a system to work. kind regards, jcr
