Re: SGI Octane

Michael <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:20:57 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sgimips
Organization	The NetBSD Foundation
Message-ID	<20170901132057.210bc8a6@claymore>

Hello,

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:02:25 -0400
0x1b <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was reading on http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/ that the
> Octane IP30 is not supported because mips64 toolchain is required,
> however some people over on the IRC channel said there was a mips64
> toolchain.=C2=A0 Is the information on the ports page out of date? Should
> it be updated?

We have a mips64 toolchain and CPU support by now, what we don't have is
Octane hardware support.

> Does anyone have an Octane?

Not me.

> I've been looking to get one for the  specific purpose of NetBSD
> testing, but I can't seem to find one affordably.

Yeah, pretty much anything SGI is ridiculously expensive on ebay.

have fun
Michael