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Hello.

I guess this is the gentoo mailing list..

Mike Poullas wrote:

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>mp
>--- "James R. Marcus" <jmarcus@mvalent.net> wrote:
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I guess.

I joined the MIPS mailing list. You?

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--- Richard Morton <master_raven@rogers.com> wrote:
> Hello.
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> Mike Poullas wrote:
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> >mp
> >--- "James R. Marcus" <jmarcus@mvalent.net> wrote:
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Yea but so far your email has been the only activity. but you seen to be
sending duplicate emails. So why did you join the mailing list? Me I
bought an SGI Octane off of EBay for $53.00 and I'm looking for an OS to
run on it seeing as I can't afford the $900.00 SGI want for a current
copy of IRIX.

Richard Morton wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I guess this is the gentoo mailing list..
>
> Mike Poullas wrote:
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>> Hi?
>>
>> mp
>> --- "James R. Marcus" <jmarcus@mvalent.net> wrote:
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Well, I don't think you will have much luck installing
Gentoo on your Octane.

After reading various docs, ot looks like the only
stable Gentoo available for SGI's works with R4xxx or
R5000 CPU's. Likely your Octane has an R10000 which is
still an experimental release under Gentoo.

You need to look for an Indy, Indigo, or 02.

I currently own 3 Indy's and 1 Indigo 2. They all run
on Irix but I will switch one to Gentoo soon.

I think you can buy the IRIX CD's on ebay for cheap.
Does your octane have a CD-ROM?

mp


--- Richard Morton <master_raven@rogers.com> wrote:
> Yea but so far your email has been the only
> activity. but you seen to be
> sending duplicate emails. So why did you join the
> mailing list? Me I
> bought an SGI Octane off of EBay for $53.00 and I'm
> looking for an OS to
> run on it seeing as I can't afford the $900.00 SGI
> want for a current
> copy of IRIX.
>
> Richard Morton wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I guess this is the gentoo mailing list..
> >
> > Mike Poullas wrote:
> >
> >> Hi?
> >>
> >> mp
> >> --- "James R. Marcus" <jmarcus@mvalent.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> Mike Poullas
> >> 656 rue Pierre
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> >> (450) 969-4642
> >> E-mail: mikepoullas@yahoo.com
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>===== Original Message From Mike Poullas <mikepoullas@yahoo.com> =====
>Well, I don't think you will have much luck installing
>Gentoo on your Octane.

Not true.

>After reading various docs, ot looks like the only
>stable Gentoo available for SGI's works with R4xxx or
>R5000 CPU's. Likely your Octane has an R10000 which is
>still an experimental release under Gentoo.

You are making a very common mistake, that is confusing processors with SGI
system types. For example, both R10000 and R12000 Octanes are known to
(mostly) work, however R10000 and R12000 O2's do not work. Anyway, Octanes
are experimental, however if you have a graphics board based on MGRAS and only
one hard drive, Octane should work fine. Anyone wanting more information
might stop by #gentoo-mips on irc.freenode.net to talk to a couple folks that
can provide you with a netboot image for these machines to install from.

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Mike Poullas wrote:
> Well, I don't think you will have much luck installing
> Gentoo on your Octane.
>
> After reading various docs, ot looks like the only
> stable Gentoo available for SGI's works with R4xxx or
> R5000 CPU's. Likely your Octane has an R10000 which is
> still an experimental release under Gentoo.
>
> You need to look for an Indy, Indigo, or 02.
>
> I currently own 3 Indy's and 1 Indigo 2. They all run
> on Irix but I will switch one to Gentoo soon.
>
> I think you can buy the IRIX CD's on ebay for cheap.
> Does your octane have a CD-ROM?
>
> mp

Ahem...

# uname -a
Linux dol-guldur 2.6.12-rc1-mipscvs-20050320 #3 SMP Sun Mar 20 20:49:15 EST
2005 mips64 R12000 V2.3 FPU V0.0 SGI Octane GNU/Linux

R10K problems exist _only_ on non-coherent cache systems. This currently
includes IP28 (Indigo2 Impact) and IP32 (O2). All other R10K-based systems
basically include IP27 (Origin) and IP30 (Octane), and do not suffer from the
speculative execution "feature" of the R10K processor. R12K and friends are
simply children of the R10K family tree.

Thus, Octane works, and works quite well. I'm currently testing 2.6.11
headers against a 2.6.12-rc1 kernel with experimental SMP support (Thanks to
the work done by Stan). This will all appear in Portage shortly.

You are correct in that it is all experimental, which means Octane owners are
kinda forced to run ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~mips" for now. Barring that, things
usually work quite well.

Check the new MIPS handbook on the main gentoo.org site for the mips hardware
requirements page, which having been redone by Redhatter, explains in great
detail the stable/experimental machines we support.


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Hi,
Sorry I was getting bounced. I have been subscribed since 09/01/2004,
but when I tried to post about my O2 boot problem I was getting denied.
I thought maybe I had sent it from another address so I was testing the
from addresses.

Anyway I did get my O2 to boot and I'm just waiting for it to finish the
bootstrap process.

Thanks,

James

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Oops!

Didn't mean to start a flame war but from what I am
reading is that, as you wrote Kumba, it all depends on
what model of SGI's you have. Unfortunately my Indigo
2 Impact and my soon to arrive 02 will not run
since they are IP28 and IP32. Which is fine since I
prefer to have Irix on those boxes anyhow.

I belive that most SGI users would like to have a
clean install (or close to it) for gentoo without too
many headaches, like me.
Now if I can only find time to get Gentoo running on
my Indy's

I am at least grateful that there is a distro out
there that takes care of us SGI guys.

mp
--- Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Mike Poullas wrote:
> > Well, I don't think you will have much luck
> installing
> > Gentoo on your Octane.
> >
> > After reading various docs, ot looks like the only
> > stable Gentoo available for SGI's works with R4xxx
> or
> > R5000 CPU's. Likely your Octane has an R10000
> which is
> > still an experimental release under Gentoo.
> >
> > You need to look for an Indy, Indigo, or 02.
> >
> > I currently own 3 Indy's and 1 Indigo 2. They all
> run
> > on Irix but I will switch one to Gentoo soon.
> >
> > I think you can buy the IRIX CD's on ebay for
> cheap.
> > Does your octane have a CD-ROM?
> >
> > mp
>
> Ahem...
>
> # uname -a
> Linux dol-guldur 2.6.12-rc1-mipscvs-20050320 #3 SMP
> Sun Mar 20 20:49:15 EST
> 2005 mips64 R12000 V2.3 FPU V0.0 SGI Octane
> GNU/Linux
>
> R10K problems exist _only_ on non-coherent cache
> systems. This currently
> includes IP28 (Indigo2 Impact) and IP32 (O2). All
> other R10K-based systems
> basically include IP27 (Origin) and IP30 (Octane),
> and do not suffer from the
> speculative execution "feature" of the R10K
> processor. R12K and friends are
> simply children of the R10K family tree.
>
> Thus, Octane works, and works quite well. I'm
> currently testing 2.6.11
> headers against a 2.6.12-rc1 kernel with
> experimental SMP support (Thanks to
> the work done by Stan). This will all appear in
> Portage shortly.
>
> You are correct in that it is all experimental,
> which means Octane owners are
> kinda forced to run ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~mips" for now.
> Barring that, things
> usually work quite well.
>
> Check the new MIPS handbook on the main gentoo.org
> site for the mips hardware
> requirements page, which having been redone by
> Redhatter, explains in great
> detail the stable/experimental machines we support.
>
>
> --Kumba
>
> --
> "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the
> wheels of the world: small
> hands do them because they must, while the eyes of
> the great are elsewhere."
> --Elrond
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There you go again, mixing things up! :) IP32 doesn't mean a whole
lot, because it can be either R5000 (works), RM[57]xxx (works enough),
or R10000 (doesn't work). Then you can have IP27 with R10000 (works),
or IP28 with R10000 (doesn't work). As Kumba said, ignore the numbers,
pay attention only to this detail: processors that use speculative
execution don't work on non-cache coherent architectures.

Mike Poullas wrote:
> Oops!
>
> Didn't mean to start a flame war but from what I am
> reading is that, as you wrote Kumba, it all depends on
> what model of SGI's you have. Unfortunately my Indigo
> 2 Impact and my soon to arrive 02 will not run
> since they are IP28 and IP32. Which is fine since I
> prefer to have Irix on those boxes anyhow.
>
> I belive that most SGI users would like to have a
> clean install (or close to it) for gentoo without too
> many headaches, like me.
> Now if I can only find time to get Gentoo running on
> my Indy's
>
> I am at least grateful that there is a distro out
> there that takes care of us SGI guys.
>
> mp
> --- Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>>Mike Poullas wrote:
>>
>>>Well, I don't think you will have much luck
>>
>>installing
>>
>>>Gentoo on your Octane.
>>>
>>>After reading various docs, ot looks like the only
>>>stable Gentoo available for SGI's works with R4xxx
>>
>>or
>>
>>>R5000 CPU's. Likely your Octane has an R10000
>>
>>which is
>>
>>>still an experimental release under Gentoo.
>>>
>>>You need to look for an Indy, Indigo, or 02.
>>>
>>>I currently own 3 Indy's and 1 Indigo 2. They all
>>
>>run
>>
>>>on Irix but I will switch one to Gentoo soon.
>>>
>>>I think you can buy the IRIX CD's on ebay for
>>
>>cheap.
>>
>>>Does your octane have a CD-ROM?
>>>
>>>mp
>>
>>Ahem...
>>
>># uname -a
>>Linux dol-guldur 2.6.12-rc1-mipscvs-20050320 #3 SMP
>>Sun Mar 20 20:49:15 EST
>>2005 mips64 R12000 V2.3 FPU V0.0 SGI Octane
>>GNU/Linux
>>
>>R10K problems exist _only_ on non-coherent cache
>>systems. This currently
>>includes IP28 (Indigo2 Impact) and IP32 (O2). All
>>other R10K-based systems
>>basically include IP27 (Origin) and IP30 (Octane),
>>and do not suffer from the
>>speculative execution "feature" of the R10K
>>processor. R12K and friends are
>>simply children of the R10K family tree.
>>
>>Thus, Octane works, and works quite well. I'm
>>currently testing 2.6.11
>>headers against a 2.6.12-rc1 kernel with
>>experimental SMP support (Thanks to
>>the work done by Stan). This will all appear in
>>Portage shortly.
>>
>>You are correct in that it is all experimental,
>>which means Octane owners are
>>kinda forced to run ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~mips" for now.
>> Barring that, things
>>usually work quite well.
>>
>>Check the new MIPS handbook on the main gentoo.org
>>site for the mips hardware
>>requirements page, which having been redone by
>>Redhatter, explains in great
>>detail the stable/experimental machines we support.
>>
>>
>>--Kumba
>>
>>--
>>"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the
>>wheels of the world: small
>>hands do them because they must, while the eyes of
>>the great are elsewhere."
>>--Elrond
>>
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Christopher G. Stach II wrote:
> There you go again, mixing things up! :) IP32 doesn't mean a whole
> lot, because it can be either R5000 (works), RM[57]xxx (works enough),
> or R10000 (doesn't work). Then you can have IP27 with R10000 (works),
> or IP28 with R10000 (doesn't work). As Kumba said, ignore the numbers,
> pay attention only to this detail: processors that use speculative
> execution don't work on non-cache coherent architectures.

Actually, hate to tell you this... IP28 *does* work... it just has a bad
habit of crashing on a regular basis due to speculative execution
causing wrong answers to be scribbled in parts of the cache that Linux
doesn't expect. Hence, when that happens, the system b0rks in a bad way.

I shall know more once I get hold of such a box (I have bids on one on
eBay -- hopefully bidding should finish shortly, and I'll drop around to
pick the box up).

(Also, can we /please/ follow RFC1855 and post replies _below_ the
quoted text?)

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Mike Poullas wrote:
> Oops!
>
> Didn't mean to start a flame war but from what I am
> reading is that, as you wrote Kumba, it all depends on
> what model of SGI's you have. Unfortunately my Indigo
> 2 Impact and my soon to arrive 02 will not run
> since they are IP28 and IP32. Which is fine since I
> prefer to have Irix on those boxes anyhow.
>
> I belive that most SGI users would like to have a
> clean install (or close to it) for gentoo without too
> many headaches, like me.
> Now if I can only find time to get Gentoo running on
> my Indy's
>
> I am at least grateful that there is a distro out
> there that takes care of us SGI guys.
>
> mp

# uname -a
Linux angband 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115 #1 Mon Jan 17 23:23:12 EST 2005 mips64
R10000 V2.5 FPU V0.0 SGI Indigo2 GNU/Linux

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/mips/mips64/ip28/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115 mips64)


The days of IRIX are nearing an end :)

IP28 only works w/ 2.6.10 (currently), has it's own profile, is inherently
risky, and may possibly eat your grandmother. But it boots, and runs.
Sometimes decent, sometimes not-so-decent. I had 23 days uptime on mine
before I yanked the plug by accident while trying to debug a whiny UPS problem.

Continued support of this is....difficult to say. It depends highly on
numbers of users, and whether once gcc-4.x rolls around, a more permanent fix
for these systems can be devised that's acceptable to gcc-mainstream to keep
these boxes alive. They are rather snappy, surprisingly.


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Kumba wrote:

> Mike Poullas wrote:
>
>> Oops!
>>
>> Didn't mean to start a flame war but from what I am
>> reading is that, as you wrote Kumba, it all depends on
>> what model of SGI's you have. Unfortunately my Indigo
>> 2 Impact and my soon to arrive 02 will not run
>> since they are IP28 and IP32. Which is fine since I
>> prefer to have Irix on those boxes anyhow.
>>
>> I belive that most SGI users would like to have a
>> clean install (or close to it) for gentoo without too
>> many headaches, like me.
>> Now if I can only find time to get Gentoo running on
>> my Indy's
>>
>> I am at least grateful that there is a distro out
>> there that takes care of us SGI guys.
>> mp
>
>
> # uname -a
> Linux angband 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115 #1 Mon Jan 17 23:23:12 EST 2005
> mips64 R10000 V2.5 FPU V0.0 SGI Indigo2 GNU/Linux
>
> # emerge info
> Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/mips/mips64/ip28/2005.0,
> gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115
> mips64)
>
>
> The days of IRIX are nearing an end :)
>
> IP28 only works w/ 2.6.10 (currently), has it's own profile, is
> inherently risky, and may possibly eat your grandmother. But it
> boots, and runs. Sometimes decent, sometimes not-so-decent. I had 23
> days uptime on mine before I yanked the plug by accident while trying
> to debug a whiny UPS problem.
>
> Continued support of this is....difficult to say. It depends highly
> on numbers of users, and whether once gcc-4.x rolls around, a more
> permanent fix for these systems can be devised that's acceptable to
> gcc-mainstream to keep these boxes alive. They are rather snappy,
> surprisingly.
>
>
> --Kumba
>
Ok I would like to ask a general question here. I awaiting my first SGI
it happens to be an Octane Specs are

Model# CMNB015ANG300
300Mhz, 1152 Mb Ram, 4Gb Drive and Video Card Model CMNB015A...030-1241-002

Now my question is what does IP28 or 32 mean is this something I need to
be concerned about?

Regards
Richard
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>
>
> Kumba wrote:
>
> > Mike Poullas wrote:
> >
> >> Oops!
> >>
> >> Didn't mean to start a flame war but from what I am
> >> reading is that, as you wrote Kumba, it all depends on
> >> what model of SGI's you have. Unfortunately my Indigo
> >> 2 Impact and my soon to arrive 02 will not run
> >> since they are IP28 and IP32. Which is fine since I
> >> prefer to have Irix on those boxes anyhow.
> >>
> >> I belive that most SGI users would like to have a
> >> clean install (or close to it) for gentoo without too
> >> many headaches, like me.
> >> Now if I can only find time to get Gentoo running on
> >> my Indy's
> >>
> >> I am at least grateful that there is a distro out
> >> there that takes care of us SGI guys.
> >> mp
> >
> >
> > # uname -a
> > Linux angband 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115 #1 Mon Jan 17 23:23:12 EST 2005
> > mips64 R10000 V2.5 FPU V0.0 SGI Indigo2 GNU/Linux
> >
> > # emerge info
> > Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/mips/mips64/ip28/2005.0,
> > gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115
> > mips64)
> >
> >
> > The days of IRIX are nearing an end :)
> >
> > IP28 only works w/ 2.6.10 (currently), has it's own profile, is
> > inherently risky, and may possibly eat your grandmother. But it
> > boots, and runs. Sometimes decent, sometimes not-so-decent. I had 23
> > days uptime on mine before I yanked the plug by accident while trying
> > to debug a whiny UPS problem.
> >
> > Continued support of this is....difficult to say. It depends highly
> > on numbers of users, and whether once gcc-4.x rolls around, a more
> > permanent fix for these systems can be devised that's acceptable to
> > gcc-mainstream to keep these boxes alive. They are rather snappy,
> > surprisingly.
> >
> >
> > --Kumba
> >
> Ok I would like to ask a general question here. I awaiting my first SGI
> it happens to be an Octane Specs are
>
> Model# CMNB015ANG300
> 300Mhz, 1152 Mb Ram, 4Gb Drive and Video Card Model
> CMNB015A...030-1241-002
>
> Now my question is what does IP28 or 32 mean is this something I need to
> be concerned about?
>
To start, neither IP28 and IP32 are Octane. Octane is IP30, O2 is IP32 and
IP28 is Indigo 2 R10000 (Indigo 2 R4400/R4600 is IP22)

Easiest to check is with the command hinv in PROM monitor.

Regards,

freshy98


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Hi, Kumba

Kumba wrote:

> Mike Poullas wrote:
>
>> Oops!
>>
>> Didn't mean to start a flame war but from what I am
>> reading is that, as you wrote Kumba, it all depends on
>> what model of SGI's you have. Unfortunately my Indigo
>> 2 Impact and my soon to arrive 02 will not run
>> since they are IP28 and IP32. Which is fine since I
>> prefer to have Irix on those boxes anyhow.
>>
>> I belive that most SGI users would like to have a
>> clean install (or close to it) for gentoo without too
>> many headaches, like me.
>> Now if I can only find time to get Gentoo running on
>> my Indy's
>>
>> I am at least grateful that there is a distro out
>> there that takes care of us SGI guys.
>> mp
>
>
> # uname -a
> Linux angband 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115 #1 Mon Jan 17 23:23:12 EST 2005
> mips64 R10000 V2.5 FPU V0.0 SGI Indigo2 GNU/Linux

HOHO, that's Cool! thanks for the info!

>
> # emerge info
> Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/mips/mips64/ip28/2005.0,
> gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.10-mipscvs-20050115
> mips64)
>
>
Congrtualtions! you've done a lot of great work.

> The days of IRIX are nearing an end :)
>
but seems that you still have a very long way to go if you really want
to attract more IRIX users,
e.g at least support FB driver for High/Max Impact card, except on board
10Mb ether port,
you should support extra one or two kind of 100Mb ethernet driver use
VESA bus.
enable ALSA driver for audio playback, etc ...
(sorry, maybe some of those tasks i mentioned might be a part of job
belong to geoman or someone else?)
otherwise your IP28 system will only can be reached via serial console,
AFAIK, such serial cable is rarely to find and not cheap.
and even after fully bootup there is only 10Mb ether connection after
fully boot.
anyway, i'm sure that some day you will finish them all ;-)

> IP28 only works w/ 2.6.10 (currently), has it's own profile, is
> inherently risky, and may possibly eat your grandmother. But it boots,
> and runs. Sometimes decent, sometimes not-so-decent. I had 23 days
> uptime on mine before I yanked the plug by accident while trying to
> debug a whiny UPS problem.
>
> Continued support of this is....difficult to say. It depends highly on
> numbers of users, and whether once gcc-4.x rolls around, a more
> permanent fix for these systems can be devised that's acceptable to
> gcc-mainstream to keep these boxes alive. They are rather snappy,
> surprisingly.
>
Hope we can hear more good news for you!



Thanks,

Haitao Zhang

> --Kumba
>


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