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Re: ANything new going on? (was: IRIX to LINUX)

To: John Clemens <john@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ANything new going on? (was: IRIX to LINUX)
From: Thomas Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22 Jun 2001 10:43:38 -0700
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On 22 Jun 2001 12:55:28 -0400, John Clemens wrote:
> 
> Actually, I'm pretty sure they have successfully done it (the challeng S
> is an Indy stripped of it's video, right?.  but linux-mips
> is the right list for that.)

well, the r5k might bite you in the ass...

> Speaking of which, this list pretty much died.. anythin interesting going
> on?  any mor progress on linux on Origin's?  how do the new R14K's stack
> up?  Any plans for a complete core update for higher clockspeeds/bus
> speeds/etc?  What about using some of the new mips R9K's or the Sybyte
> ones?  lots of processing power in a little space/power consumption.

no one has gotten linux working on the 03k's yet AFAIK.

> What about NUMA support in the kernel....? anybody gotten it beyond the
> simple round-robin stuff that was in there origionally?

there are a few projects going on between IBM and SGI.  you should check
out the lse project on sourceforge.  some of the NUMA work includes
round-robin, process pinning, first touch, process groups, and others I
am not thinking about right now.

> I'm still waiting for that dual, 1Ghz MIPS based laptop I've always wanted
> to build myself but lack the play money to do it..and dual bootit
> Linux/IRIX, of course.

dream on...I just want a dual proc laptop, who cares about the chip!

-tduffy



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