SGI Visual Workstation Support

SGI Visual Workstation Support

[Bram Smout]

Hello,

If I try to compile a 2.4.x (0-3) kernel for my SGI 540 Workstation and I
enable SGI Virtual Workstation support (under general setup) the compilation
stops with the error "kernel.o: In function 'enable_irq' etc...".

Previous kernels, such as 2.2.19 compile without any problem (same options).
Anyone a idea of what's wrong ?
-- 
Greetings,
Bram

Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support

[Jeff Garzik]

Bram Smout wrote:
> If I try to compile a 2.4.x (0-3) kernel for my SGI 540 Workstation and I
> enable SGI Virtual Workstation support (under general setup) the compilation
> stops with the error "kernel.o: In function 'enable_irq' etc...".

SGI Visual Workstation support has been unmaintained for quite a while.

Interested in fixing it?  :)

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Building 1024    | the English think 100 miles is a long distance and
MandrakeSoft     | the Americans think 100 years is a long time.
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Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:12:14PM +0200, Bram Smout wrote:
> If I try to compile a 2.4.x (0-3) kernel for my SGI 540 Workstation and I
> enable SGI Virtual Workstation support (under general setup) the compilation
> stops with the error "kernel.o: In function 'enable_irq' etc...".
> 
> Previous kernels, such as 2.2.19 compile without any problem (same options).
> Anyone a idea of what's wrong ?

Bit rot. Nobody actually has a SGI VW, so it's currently not
maintained.


Erik

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Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support

[nick]

Is documantation available for the VW?
	Nick

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:12:14PM +0200, Bram Smout wrote:
> > If I try to compile a 2.4.x (0-3) kernel for my SGI 540 Workstation and I
> > enable SGI Virtual Workstation support (under general setup) the compilation
> > stops with the error "kernel.o: In function 'enable_irq' etc...".
> > 
> > Previous kernels, such as 2.2.19 compile without any problem (same options).
> > Anyone a idea of what's wrong ?
> 
> Bit rot. Nobody actually has a SGI VW, so it's currently not
> maintained.
> 
> 
> Erik
> 
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> of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems,
> Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031,  2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
> Phone: +31-15-2783635  Fax: +31-15-2781843  Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl
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Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support

[Nitebirdz]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 nick@snowman.net wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: nick@snowman.net
> To: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
> Cc: Bram Smout <bram@ba.be>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support
>
> Is documantation available for the VW?
> 	Nick
>


There is some user documentation at SGI's TechPubs:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/


Other than that, SGI releases their ProPack overlay software every now and then
so you can install it on top of Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux or any of the major
distribution.  You will find more information over here:

http://www.sgi.com/linux/


As for the 2.4 kernel, I recently installed their XFS beta on top of Red
Hat Linux 7.1 no problem.  It installs a 2.4.2 kernel modified by the SGI
developers to work with the XFS filesystem.  I understand it's still beta
software, but it's been running just fine on my system for a while now.

If you need _real_ in-depth information that I cannot provide due to my
ignorance of these issue, go ahead and send a message to one of the mailing
lists for any of their projects.  I'm pretty sure their developers will
provide the help you need.

I hope I didn't waste your time or bandwidth.  I usually keep quite and
listen to you guys to see what I can learn.  I just thought I might have
some helpful info in this case.   :-)



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Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support

[Nitebirdz]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 nick@snowman.net wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: nick@snowman.net
> To: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
> Cc: Bram Smout <bram@ba.be>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support
>
> Is documantation available for the VW?
> 	Nick
>


Nick,


I found one more document that may be helpful to you:

http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/



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