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Date:      Sun, 9 Nov 1997 19:27:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To:        mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDT processors?
Message-ID:  <199711100327.TAA21900@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971109222439.12758@vmunix.com> from Mark Mayo at "Nov 9, 97 10:24:39 pm"

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> On Sun, Nov 09, 1997 at 01:55:39PM -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > > > ALPHA, get that freebsd port done!
> > > 
> > > why would anyone want to use anything else than r10000?
> > > 
> > > now, _that_ would be a port i'd like to see, freebsd on SGI platform.
> > > 
> > > how likely is it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > mickey
> > 
> > Then let's start a port. I have an O2 R10K at home. I might be able to
> > get some insider information. Considering that people internal have
> > done a Linux port (or part of it) as also they have done a NT kernel
> > for a Challenge L.
> > 
> > On the other side I am looking at a project involving a Mips R4300i,
> > a SCSI controller and several EIDE controller ;-)
> 
> Isn't the R4300i the processor used in the Nintendo N64? Now that
> would be something!

Yes, it is. At 93 Mhz.

> 
> Personally, I'd love to help with a port like this -- the problem
> of course would be getting information from Nintendo..

There is some dev kit, but supposely you need a high powered SGI machine,
probably because of the GFX.

> 
> I suspect the rest of the R4300 would be well documented, at least
> superficially the entire MIPS lineup seems to be fairly "open"
> and documented.

The R4300 itself is very well documented. 1k quantity pricing is around $35
or less.

> 
> -Mark
> 
> > 
> > Ulf.
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936
> > Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net  | Fax#: 510-521-5073
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Mark Mayo		  				mark@vmunix.com       
>  RingZero Comp.  	  		    http://www.vmunix.com/mark 
> 
> 	 finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to
> an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
> written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.  -UGU
> 

Ulf.

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