On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:55:45PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:27:29AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I'm wondering what is the fastest platform that will run Linux/MIPS. I'm > > currently running on an Indy and it's painfully slow at this point. I'd > > like to upgrade to a Indigo 2 R10K if I could or something similar. As > > far as I can see, nothing like that is supported. Am I mistaken? I've > > seen some hints that an Origin 200 might be semi working but I'd prefer > > to stay with something that doesn't suck power like it is free :) > > We're working to resurrect the Origin 2000, now that is going to suck > power :-) Origin 200 running 2.6 is behaving very well btw.
Hmm, that may be the right path then. Can I just install debian and then rebuild the 2.6 kernel? What's the power draw on the O200? > Indigo 2 R10000 and O2 R1x000 are two very hard to support machines due > to the R10000's very odd behaviour in non-coherent systems but things > are finally starting to move in this area. Don't hold your breath ... OK, I'll ignore those. > High-performance evaluation boards like for the SB1250 or (soon) the > RM9000x2 (Both dual-CPU on a die, 1GHz etc.) are probably the fastest you > can get and consume very little power - but they're also rather expensive. > In addition you can switch their endianess with a dip switch and reboot > which may be welcome in your case, I guess? I have friends at Broadcom and might be able to get a board somewhat cheaply. Is that the best way to go? What I'm looking for is a fast, stable build platform. No graphics, it's headless, I need networking (obviously). All of this is so we can support keeping MIPs in our build cluster. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
