From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757895AbYDVG4T (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:56:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754917AbYDVG4H (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:56:07 -0400 Received: from aksay.ru ([80.254.111.40]:59892 "EHLO aksay.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754781AbYDVG4F (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:56:05 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1763 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:56:05 EDT Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:19:04 +0400 From: Andrey Panin To: Adrian Bunk Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Alexey Starikovskiy , tglx@linutronix.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Status of SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) support? Message-ID: <20080422061904.GA6423@pazke.donpac.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Bunk , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Alexey Starikovskiy , tglx@linutronix.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080421000238.GD26897@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080421085314.GI26897@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080421120054.GA6788@elte.hu> <480C8EC8.3080705@zytor.com> <20080421141058.GH6011@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080421141058.GH6011@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> X-Uname: Linux 2.6.23-rc3 x86_64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 112, 04 21, 2008 at 05:10:58PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:55:36AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >... > > VISWS is another matter. It's entirely possible I have the only =20 > > remaining VISWS in my garage; we have at least not been able to locate = =20 > > another. Not that we have tried all that hard. > > > > If there are no VISWS' left, we should just unload the code. >=20 > Googling a bit around 320/540 hardware does not seem to have completely= =20 > vanished from the earth, and there are still people who'd like to=20 > install Linux on them. >=20 > Looking through the archives of the mailing list in MAINTAINERS there=20 > seem to be some older 2.6 kernels that worked on some Visual=20 > Workstations, but no indication that recent kernels work. >=20 > Andrey, what is the status of recent 2.6 kernels on the SGI 320/540? Right now it doesn't work, but there is a hope. I recovered my SGI 320 recently and I plan to start hacking kernel on it Real Soon Now. --=20 Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke@donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDYNYIWZCBzwS8mkRAq83AKC1S14PtytEeSf08jpqnenfhp7y4wCfUeff yd8Uc2wg4P3EaaKlkaUc4Fk= =NfGK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--