Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:19:04 +0400 | From | Andrey Panin <> | Subject | Re: Status of SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) support? |
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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 > > remaining VISWS in my garage; we have at least not been able to locate > > another. Not that we have tried all that hard. > > > > If there are no VISWS' left, we should just unload the code. > > Googling a bit around 320/540 hardware does not seem to have completely > vanished from the earth, and there are still people who'd like to > install Linux on them. > > Looking through the archives of the mailing list in MAINTAINERS there > seem to be some older 2.6 kernels that worked on some Visual > Workstations, but no indication that recent kernels work. > > 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.
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