Re: Hardware list and further planning

From: Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <p2@mind.be>
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 18:57:50 CEST
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<p>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:14:40PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
<em class="quotelev1">> Hallo everybody,
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<em class="quotelev1">> we have another new crew member: Thomas Bogendoerfer is with us.
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> Thomas will take care of the PA/RISC stuff, but besides that he has
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<em class="quotelev1">> probably had his hands in the interior of nearly every architecture
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<em class="quotelev1">> we have :-).
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<em class="quotelev1">> I have put together a list of the hardware offers we have had so far
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<em class="quotelev1">> out of which we should now choose which machines we will actually
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<em class="quotelev1">> present:
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<em class="quotelev1">> Sparc:
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<em class="quotelev1">> - SS10 (Karsten)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - MrCoffee (Karsten)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - Classic (Karsten)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Ultra5 (Flo or Guido)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Ultra1 (Flo)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - SS20 with 4x200Mhz Hypersparc (Thomas)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - SparcServer 1000E with 8x85Mhz Supersparc (Thomas)
</em>
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<em class="quotelev1">> The Classic and the SS10 are listed here as a kind of "last resort",
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<em class="quotelev1">> as they are very slow. The MrCoffee is intended as an X-Terminal, if
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<em class="quotelev1">> I should get Kdrive to run on it until LinuxTag. Currently things do
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<em class="quotelev1">> not look very promising, so don't count on it.
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<em class="quotelev1">> I find the quad-CPU SS20 and the SS1000E very interesting, as they
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<em class="quotelev1">> are >= 4-way-SMP systems, but Thomas told me that SMP support on them
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<em class="quotelev1">> is not very stable. So how about an Ultra5 from Flo as "normal"
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<em class="quotelev1">> machine and additionally the SS20?
</em>
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<em class="quotelev1">> Mipsel
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Cobalt RaQ (Karsten)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Cobalt Qube (Peter)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - DDB5074 (Peter)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Broadcom-based router (Karsten)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - DECstation (Thiemo or Karsten)
</em>
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<em class="quotelev1">> I propose the Qube and a DECstation. If I can manage to get the
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> Broadcom-based Router as well, we can add that one easily as it is
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> very small.
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<em class="quotelev1">> PPC
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<em class="quotelev1">> - Lombard Powerbook G3 (Peter)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - Embedded PPC board (Peter)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - PowerMac 7200/200 (Flo)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - Umax Apus 3000 (Flo)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Powerbook 12" (Guido, though possibly only part-time)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Thinkpad 760 (Peter)
</em>
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<em class="quotelev1">> Here I propose the Lombard, the Thinkpad, an embedded PPC board and
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<em class="quotelev1">> Flo's PowerMac 7200/200. Guido, I guess you will have your Powerbook
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> with you as well for the time you are there?
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<em class="quotelev1">> HPPA
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<em class="quotelev1">> - C240 (Peter)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - C200 (Flo)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - B2600 (Thomas)
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<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> I'd like to see the B2600 at the booth. It is a quite fast system and
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<em class="quotelev1">> has a supported grahics card, so we can present some "eye-candy" on
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<em class="quotelev1">> it.
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<em class="quotelev1">> Arm
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<em class="quotelev1">> - Cerfboard
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<em class="quotelev1">> - tuxscreen
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<em class="quotelev1">> - trizeps
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<em class="quotelev1">> - NMI PXA250
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<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> The tuxscreen got many interested visitors in the last years, so we
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<em class="quotelev1">> should take it again. Apart from that: Peter, your choice.
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> sh3/sh4
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<em class="quotelev1">> - Dreamcast
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<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> Here the same as with the tuxscreen applies.
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<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> m68k
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Sun 3/60 (Thomas)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Max IIfx (Peter)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">> - Amiga 4000 (Peter)
</em>
<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> I do not really have any preferences here. Any proposals?
</em>
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<em class="quotelev1">> Alpha
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<em class="quotelev1">> - PWS500 (Peter)
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<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> Booked :-)
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<em class="quotelev1">>
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<em class="quotelev1">> We have not yet had formal offers for Mips, so how about
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<em class="quotelev1">> - BCM91250A (Thiemo?)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - Indy (Thiemo?)
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<em class="quotelev1">> - O2 (Guido, Karsten?)
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<em class="quotelev1">> My proposal is a BCM91250A, as it is nice example of a modern MIPS
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<em class="quotelev1">> system, plus an Indy as the Indy is well supported. Anybody willing
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<em class="quotelev1">> to provide an R5k box? Thiemo, Guido? Does anybody have a current
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<em class="quotelev1">> kernel with framebuffer support running on the O2?
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<em class="quotelev1">>
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<p>I have a working R5k indy now, just need to install it. The BCM91250A is
a nice idea indeed. What would be really cool is to use the pcmcia card
for the booth wireless uplink :) That probably requires some hacking on
the drivers though.
<p>Cheers,
<p>Peter (p2).
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