Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:18:55 -0800 From: "David Jellison" <davidjellison@hotmail.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: intrest in MIPS 10,000 CPU? support Message-ID: <OE47Y0QUUBPcZi71mrv00003511@hotmail.com> References: <OE19w8GIgovcke7m99L00005a3b@hotmail.com> <20020219175111.O48401@blossom.cjclark.org> <3C736DAB.4B6B4CEA@mindspring.com>
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Regarding "What's the ballpark on a cheap 64 bit MIPS box?" I picked one up for $50. with 192Mb ram and HD sled WO drive. I think that MIPS 10000 is going to take a casual hacker price point. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "David Jellison" <davidjellison@hotmail.com>; <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:34 AM Subject: Re: intrest in MIPS 10,000 CPU? support > "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:45:40PM -0800, David Jellison wrote: > > > Is there any one working an support for SGI INDIGO 2 with the > > > 10000 cpu and SolidImpact Graphics? > > > > You mean the IP28 in a "Power Indigo2 10000?" > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/sgi/resources/ip-cpu.html > > > > I _think_ NetBSD does those, > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/ > > > > I don't think there is much interest in FreeBSD about porting to any > > SGI hardware. > > For $299 I can get a 733MHz machine with 20G of disk, 128M of > RAM, etc. etc.. > > I can get an Alpha for pretty cheap, but I can only stick 2G > of RAM in it because of FreeBSD limitations that are Alpha > specific. > > What's the ballpark on a cheap 64 bit MIPS box? > > The only reason I would go for MIPS or Itanium or other 64 > bit machine would be to break the 4G of physical RAM barrier. > > I think the MIPS 10000 is going to take a long time to reach > a casual hacker price point. > > That said, there is apparently an unmerged FreeBSD MIPS port > that boots multiuser; this was reported on at the BSDCon. It > looks to be a difficult merge to get it in the tree, and I'm > not sure if it's 32 bit or 64 bit (I think it may be 32, but > there are some 64 bit embedded systems, like SIBytes, so I > could be wrong on that). > > You should contact the people involved on the correct mailing > list, if you are interested in helping with the peeing on the > code to make it smell like FreeBSD. > > -- Terry > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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