Subject: Re: NEC Vr4400 and ARC manufacturing kits

From: Alan Krantz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 09:57:53 MDT

Three things: 
    1) It seems that the video should be a local bus card instead of
       on the mother board (given the rapidly changing/availbility) of
       cheap accelators (S3 boards are now around $130)

    2) Is the SCSI on the isa bus or main cpu board ?

    3) Is anyone porting linux to the Mips chip ?

Thanks, 
alan

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From: [email-masked] (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 13:36:54 +1000 (EST)

>     2) Is the SCSI on the isa bus or main cpu board ?

Video and scsi are on the main board.  Read the list's archives before
commenting further, to save more noise.

>     3) Is anyone porting linux to the Mips chip ?

Yes.  I'm working on it, as much as possible without hardware.  I'm mainly
interested in getting the linux core going: interrupts, MMU and most
basic drivers, leaving most device drivers, user mode stuff etc to later
and for others.

	J

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From: Bill Broadley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 08:57:20 -0500 (EDT)

> basic drivers, leaving most device drivers, user mode stuff etc to later

Not sure if this is the appropiate time to get start the linux port, but I have
access to 2 decstation's and plan to help out as much as possible.

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