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From: Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <p2@mind.be>
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 18:57:50 CEST

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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:14:40PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Hallo everybody,

>

> we have another new crew member: Thomas Bogendoerfer is with us.

> Thomas will take care of the PA/RISC stuff, but besides that he has

> probably had his hands in the interior of nearly every architecture

> we have :-).

>

> I have put together a list of the hardware offers we have had so far

> out of which we should now choose which machines we will actually

> present:

>

> Sparc:

> - SS10 (Karsten)

> - MrCoffee (Karsten)

> - Classic (Karsten)

> - Ultra5 (Flo or Guido)

> - Ultra1 (Flo)

> - SS20 with 4x200Mhz Hypersparc (Thomas)

> - SparcServer 1000E with 8x85Mhz Supersparc (Thomas)

>

> The Classic and the SS10 are listed here as a kind of "last resort",

> as they are very slow. The MrCoffee is intended as an X-Terminal, if

> I should get Kdrive to run on it until LinuxTag. Currently things do

> not look very promising, so don't count on it.

>

> I find the quad-CPU SS20 and the SS1000E very interesting, as they

> are >= 4-way-SMP systems, but Thomas told me that SMP support on them

> is not very stable. So how about an Ultra5 from Flo as "normal"

> machine and additionally the SS20?

>

> Mipsel

> - Cobalt RaQ (Karsten)

> - Cobalt Qube (Peter)

> - DDB5074 (Peter)

> - Broadcom-based router (Karsten)

> - DECstation (Thiemo or Karsten)

>

> I propose the Qube and a DECstation. If I can manage to get the

> Broadcom-based Router as well, we can add that one easily as it is

> very small.

>

> PPC

> - Lombard Powerbook G3 (Peter)

> - Embedded PPC board (Peter)

> - PowerMac 7200/200 (Flo)

> - Umax Apus 3000 (Flo)

> - Powerbook 12" (Guido, though possibly only part-time)

> - Thinkpad 760 (Peter)

>

> Here I propose the Lombard, the Thinkpad, an embedded PPC board and

> Flo's PowerMac 7200/200. Guido, I guess you will have your Powerbook

> with you as well for the time you are there?

>

> HPPA

> - C240 (Peter)

> - C200 (Flo)

> - B2600 (Thomas)

>

> I'd like to see the B2600 at the booth. It is a quite fast system and

> has a supported grahics card, so we can present some "eye-candy" on

> it.

>

> Arm

> - Cerfboard

> - tuxscreen

> - trizeps

> - NMI PXA250

>

> The tuxscreen got many interested visitors in the last years, so we

> should take it again. Apart from that: Peter, your choice.

>

> sh3/sh4

> - Dreamcast

>

> Here the same as with the tuxscreen applies.

>

> m68k

> - Sun 3/60 (Thomas)

> - Max IIfx (Peter)

> - Amiga 4000 (Peter)

>

> I do not really have any preferences here. Any proposals?

>

> Alpha

> - PWS500 (Peter)

>

> Booked :-)

>

> We have not yet had formal offers for Mips, so how about

> - BCM91250A (Thiemo?)

> - Indy (Thiemo?)

> - O2 (Guido, Karsten?)

>

> My proposal is a BCM91250A, as it is nice example of a modern MIPS

> system, plus an Indy as the Indy is well supported. Anybody willing

> to provide an R5k box? Thiemo, Guido? Does anybody have a current

> kernel with framebuffer support running on the O2?

>

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.
Cheers,
Peter (p2).

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