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legacy
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 Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject: what is the last working kernel on SGI/mips machine ? |
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hi
i have a 2.6.17 running on my octane2, indy, o2 and impact
what is the last working kernel for these machines ?
i am a bit confused about |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| 3.7 should work. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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have you tested it ?
on which SGI/mips machine ? |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| No, but there's no reason why it wouldn't work. The only arch support that's been dropped recently is i386 and a few obscure ARM CPUs. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| we are not talking about MIPS CPU, we are talking about SGI/MIPS systems, which are experimental systems with reduced support. |
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I'm interrested by the question too. I want to try Linux on my Octane system.
So, I'm using a netboot image from the year 2006 and I try the stage3-mips4-r10k for the installation.
So when I'll install the kernel, which version I have to use?
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| Ant P. wrote: | | No, but there's no reason why it wouldn't work. The only arch support that's been dropped recently is i386 and a few obscure ARM CPUs. |
A lot of these archs were never supported to begin with. I was running Gentoo on an SGI Octane from 2006-2008, and the IP30 wasn't fully supported, and only one of the O2s I was working with at the time were supported as well (was it a 5K and 15K that we had? I don't remember anymore). Also, I'm not sure that portage if Gentoo still builds on these systems. The MIPS team was pretty sparse back then. |
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