Hello everyone, On 12 Aug 2018, at 07:46, Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:18 PM J.P.Malhado <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:13:43 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: >>> We need some more build machines, current we use some ER8s, >>> which use NFS as rootfs and they have no FPU. >>> So the performance and stability are bad. >> >> I'm commenting here from a position of ignorance: >> Would SGI hardware make good build machines for the architecture? I'm asking >> because I have a 3 SGI Octanes I could give away. > > Doubtful. Octanes use hundreds of watts and aren't very fast compared > with modern systems. They are indeed big endian, however. I would be interested in one faster than 2x250MHz ;-) >> According to this information from Gentoo >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/Hardware_Requirements#IP30:_Octane >> it should be semi-functional, but that information might be out of date. > > The maintainer of T2 Linux (René, Cc'd) has a YouTube channel in which > he demonstrated an Octane running a modern (4.8?) kernel he had > patched. I have not seen evidence of those patches going upstream > though. As far as I know his work is in a significantly better state > than that of Joshua's (from Gentoo). I started to contact Ralf, and intend to try in autumn over the winter, to finally get the ageing Sgi Octane port bits upstream. https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/IP30 https://t2sde.org/architectures/mips64/ Greetings, René -- ExactCODE GmbH, Lietzenburger Str. 42, DE-10789 Berlin DE Legal: Amtsgericht Berlin (Charlottenburg) HRB 105123B, Tax-ID#: DE251602478 Managing Director: René Rebe http://exactcode.com | http://exactscan.com | http://ocrkit.com | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de
