I've seen the old driver patch you refer to floating around out there.
After I've done my USB and firewire experiments, I wouldn't mind taking a
look at this to see how bad it is. An SGI without sound is kind of like a
car without wheels....
Over all, I've been quite impressed. Most things that I try seem to be
generally working. I've already succeeded in building the box up as a
general desktop system. X11, WindowMaker, transparent Xterms, NLS, DDD,
gvim, GIMP, Firefox 2.0, QT, openGL (some GL works, some crash the X
server), XFIG, gv (pdf and ps viewer), xv, gtk, imagemagik, tetex,
ghostscript, etc...
I've also done some work to verify IPv6. The kernel module loads, the
machine auto addresses, and the 6-to-4 driver loads. I still need to
rebuild some userland with USE=ipv6 to fully check it out, but I'm not
expecting any surprises at this point.
The PPTP and PPP-MPPE vpn support is working. I've spent entire days
plugged into my work VPN during my work from home days using the O2 as an
X console and VPN access node. No surprises here.
The file system chosen for my box is IBM's JFS. In work life, I've been
doing embedded stuff with JFS for a couple years now. I first tried it
with gentoo and mips under kernel 2.13 about a year and a half ago. And
under 2.17.10-mips, it is still proving to be solid and exceptionally well
performing as I've emerged about 500 packages in the last couple weeks -
no crashes, no oops, no data corruption, rock solid. I know people on
non-intel are skeptical of it, but I've been warming up to it a lot and
have never seen issues, but I've had issues with reiser that made it
unacceptable. There's a lot in terms of performance and features to
recommend this file system - assuming stability of course. :) It's
definately worthy of consideration when setting up a new non-intel box.
Cheers,
-S-
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Kumba wrote:
J. Scott Kasten wrote:
[1] From looking at other configs there, and having just walked through
the 2.17.10 config process, it looks like the alsa mips ip32 sound device
has been disabled. I cannot even select it in 2.17.10. I was wondering
what the status of this driver was. Judging from submitted configs, it
looks like people had been enabling it at 2.16 or earlier.
O2 doesn't have a working sound driver. I dunno what the alsa mips thing is,
but it's probably dead code. A few people have, apparently, created a
working sound driver, but they've never released the source, so, it's kinda
like Duke Nukem Forever.
The only known driver was designed in the old 2.5 days and 2.6.1 timeframe,
but attempts to forward port it never do too well. It can be compiled, but
all it does is make ears bleed with static. Someone with an O2, free time,
decent knowledge of sound hardware and kernel development, and a few pots of
coffee needs to step forward and help us get the thing to work.
--Kumba
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