Re: Is SGI Octane supported?
Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips |
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| Organization | KDG Telemetry |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:45 AM, T. Ermlich <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> Wheezy runs fine on my SGI O2, so I bought an Octane ... love the cases ;) >> >> I checked http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ and mipsel, and found no information regarding an Octane. >> But I'm curious as arcload (http://packages.debian.org/stable/arcload) supports it ... >> >> Is it possible to install Debian on an Octane? > > Support for Octane never made is into the kernel and has seriously > bitrotted since it was written (~2.6.19). Thus Debian can't support > Octane. Although the description and possibly some files are still accessible http://www.linux-mips.org/~skylark/ I think that version of kernel mandates Debian "Etch", although it might turn out to be possible to walk it forward (i.e. with manual kernel patches etc.) to "Lenny". Lenny is about as far as you'll get with multiple older architectures (SPARC, PPC Mac G3 and so on), but in general the infrastructure (i.e. libc etc.) is fresh enough for it to be useful. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]