Comments on: Gentoo/MIPS: 2008.0 Beta1 Stages available for testing http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/03/17/gentoomips-20080b1/ The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4FSJL) Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:00:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Redhatter (VK4FSJL) http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/03/17/gentoomips-20080b1/#comment-1608 Redhatter (VK4FSJL) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:19:59 +0000 http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/03/17/gentoomips-20080b1/#comment-1608 Unfortunately, I don't think any of us will be promising that in the near future. At the moment, my Octane is out of action, possibly with a fried frontplane, I haven't the time to fix it now. Everything presently known about the Impact, is reverse engineered. The one piece of hardware that remains to be reversed engineered, is the geometry engine that does OpenGL and accelerated 2D. If you happen to know how it works, do tell! ;-) SGI won't tell us, and I certainly don't have the knowledge required to reverse engineer the rest. Unfortunately, I don’t think any of us will be promising that in the near future. At the moment, my Octane is out of action, possibly with a fried frontplane, I haven’t the time to fix it now.

Everything presently known about the Impact, is reverse engineered. The one piece of hardware that remains to be reversed engineered, is the geometry engine that does OpenGL and accelerated 2D. If you happen to know how it works, do tell! ;-) SGI won’t tell us, and I certainly don’t have the knowledge required to reverse engineer the rest.

]]> By: ritchan http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/03/17/gentoomips-20080b1/#comment-1607 ritchan Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:01:48 +0000 http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/03/17/gentoomips-20080b1/#comment-1607 Hey man, good job getting Linux on SGI machines. I'd be one of the first to jump on the bandwagon as soon as you can promise me 2D acceleration for SI, because IRIX is sorely lacking on the updated software front. Don't give up, I'm pinning my hopes on you. Hey man, good job getting Linux on SGI machines. I’d be one of the first to jump on the bandwagon as soon as you can promise me 2D acceleration for SI, because IRIX is sorely lacking on the updated software front.

Don’t give up, I’m pinning my hopes on you.

]]> By: Bits by Ben : More Gentoo pre-beta news http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/03/17/gentoomips-20080b1/#comment-1600 Bits by Ben : More Gentoo pre-beta news Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:26:11 +0000 http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/03/17/gentoomips-20080b1/#comment-1600 [...] user has released his own unofficial LiveCD for i686, one of the Gentoo/MIPS devs has released experimental 2008.0-beta1 stages for Cobalt and SGI MIPS hardware. Our RelEng team is still working hard on getting the official release [...] [...] user has released his own unofficial LiveCD for i686, one of the Gentoo/MIPS devs has released experimental 2008.0-beta1 stages for Cobalt and SGI MIPS hardware. Our RelEng team is still working hard on getting the official release [...]

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