Re: Status of SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) support?

[Andrey Panin]

On 112, 04 21, 2008 at 05:10:58PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:55:36AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >...
> > VISWS is another matter.  It's entirely possible I have the only  
> > remaining VISWS in my garage; we have at least not been able to locate  
> > another.  Not that we have tried all that hard.
> >
> > If there are no VISWS' left, we should just unload the code.
> 
> Googling a bit around 320/540 hardware does not seem to have completely 
> vanished from the earth, and there are still people who'd like to 
> install Linux on them.
> 
> Looking through the archives of the mailing list in MAINTAINERS there 
> seem to be some older 2.6 kernels that worked on some Visual 
> Workstations, but no indication that recent kernels work.
> 
> Andrey, what is the status of recent 2.6 kernels on the SGI 320/540?

Right now it doesn't work, but there is a hope. I recovered my SGI 320
recently and I plan to start hacking kernel on it Real Soon Now.

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