On 112, 04 21, 2008 at 05:10:58PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:55:36AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> > 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 =
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> > another.  Not that we have tried all that hard.
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> > If there are no VISWS' left, we should just unload the code.
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> Googling a bit around 320/540 hardware does not seem to have completely=
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> vanished from the earth, and there are still people who'd like to=20
> install Linux on them.
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> 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.
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> 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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