Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 11 00:55:02 1998 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Olson) > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Linux on an SGI Challenge L > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "Steven G. Parker" at "Dec 10, 98 > 08:59:11 am" > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven G. Parker) > Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 08:21:47 -0800 (PST) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mt. View, CA > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL35 (25)] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Orcpt: rfc822;[email protected] > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Precedence: bulk > X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Steven G. Parker wrote: > | On Dec 10, 4:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > > Anyone care to make any comments on porting Linux to an SGI Challenge L > | > > machine w/ (4) R4400 processors? Am I crazy to even attempt this? > | > > | > You're not crazy, after all Linux is already running on bigger iron and > | > about to run on Sun's E10000. However you should checkout again what > | > hardware you actually have on your system. A Challenge L is mostly like > | > an Indy (which is supported), that is strictly uniprocessor. So > | > your system either is not a multiprocessor system or not a Challenge L. > | > | Actually, the Indy system is a Challenge S. The Indigo^2 system is > | a Challenge M. The Challenge L is the desk-side system and can indeed > | support multiple processors. > | > | I can only comment on the model line - not on whether you are crazy or not > :) > > The hardware is radically different. The only shared item is the cpu, > and even it's used in a fairly different way. indy w/o graphics as > challenge S, etc. is strictly a marketing idea. > > It's clearly doable, but you need a whole new set of hardware specs. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hmmm...... > > Dave Olson, Silicon Graphics > http://reality.sgi.com/olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ > To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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