Re: PR 36158 (>256MB in O2)

On 2013-03-02, at 3:47 PM, Kevin Day wrote:

> Is anyone working on PR #36158 (NetBSD/sgimips does not properly detect the total amount of physical memory in an IP32 (O2) machine)?
> 
> I'm working with a library who wants to reuse a bunch of O2 machines as locked down kiosk web browsing systems, but I wasn't aware of this limitation until we got reasonably down this path. Looking at the diff for OpenBSD to add support it doesn't seem trivial, but I'm not sure if all of that is needed here. Any progress on this since the last PR update?

I don't think there's been much activity on the sgimips port for a long time. You may be better off just using OpenBSD as Miod and company seem to be more active (and have the support you seek already). I think their sgi port is almost entirely a superset of ours by now.

In any event, wouldn't the library be much better off with a bunch of cheap atom machines? These SGIs are pretty ancient, and atoms would probably pay for themselves in power savings over a few years.

Steve