Re: documentation
folkert <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:48:37 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sgimips |
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> > I'm looking for any documentation on SGI hardware. E.g. Indy, Indigo, > > etc. > > The only official hardware docs I know of were for the Indy (Indigo2 is largely identical). The Linux-Mips guys have them on their wiki: > http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/IP22 This is great! I did not expect so much documentation to be available! > Brent Casavan at SGI was able to release portions of docs for the HPC1.5 (attached). As far as I know, that's the extent of docs for IP22 and older. I've never looked at the newer machines, but others (especially the OpenBSD guys) probably know more. > The Indigo hardware is very similar to the Indy/Indigo2. The graphics and audio aside, the biggest difference is that it uses the HPC1.5 DMA engine for ethernet/scsi/etc, which has slightly different registers from the HPC3. The R3000-based Indigo (IP12) has a few other slight differences, but is mostly the same as IP12 save for the processor and different PROM. Yeah I decided this morning to go for an Indy emulation as there's more documentation available for it. Thanks! Regards, Folkert.