On Sunday 12 March 2006 04.48, Jason Crawford wrote: > On 3/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:51:24 -0500, "Jason Crawford" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I am soon going to be getting an Octane with dual R12000SC CPUs. I was > > >wondering how well OpenBSD would work on this computer (I am pretty > > >sure there isn't SMP support on the SGI stuff yet) and how much help > > >is needed in getting the SGI port to work even better. > > > > > >Jason > > > > Hi Jason, > > > > Octane support is a "planned project" but currently there is no support > > for Octane as far as I know. > > > > The only currently supported model is the SGI O2. The "little blue > > toaster" O2 systems are a lot of fun and amazingly quick when they have > > lots of RAM. When you stuff them full of RAM, they just scream, moreso > > than any other arch I've used. > > > > 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? >
IIRC the Octane is a little messy wrt how the "glue" chips are designed. The major uphill task with porting to SGI is the lack of HW documentation. However, there is a Linux port for the Octane which may be used as a source of information. Now... someone need to spend time doing the work. Regretfully i have been to busy with to many other things to even have had time to look at an SGI for several months. But if anyone else want to dig in i will be more than happy to help by answering questions etc. Per
