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<title>Linux/MIPS HOWTO
<author>Ralf B&auml;chle, <tt/ralf@gnu.org/
<date>June 24, 2000
<date>July 18, 2000
<abstract>
This FAQ describes the MIPS port of the Linux operating system, common
problems and their solutions, availability and more. It also tries to
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in such systems. As of today these systems are the SGI&nbsp;O2 and
Indigo&nbsp;<p>
<sect2>Processors without TLB<p>
For embedded purposes there are special derivates of above CPU available
which often lack a full TLB. We don't support those types nor should you
ever expect such support to be added.<p>
Hackers may want to take a look at a Linux subset named Microcontroller
Linux or short ucLinux. This would be supportable on TLB-less processors.
Given the litte difference between CPU types with and without TLB we
still recommen to choose a processor with TLB. It's going to save you
a lot of engineering.
<sect2>Processors with partial or no FPU<p>
In theory these processors are supportable, especially when applications
don't rely on the presence of a FPU. We however don't support that yet.
<sect1>Hardware we're never going to support<p>
<sect2>IBM RS6000<p>
As the name say these are IBM machines which are based on the RS6000
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<sect2>SGI VisPC<p>
This is actually an x86 based system, therefore not covered by this FAQ.
But to make your search for answers simple, here it is.
<htmlurl url="mailto:kck@mailbox.esd.sgi.com"
name="Ken Klingman (kck@mailbox.esd.sgi.com)">
posted on January&nbsp;17, 1999 to SGI's Linux mailing list:
<verb>
We are working on it. We're actually close to getting
the base level system support into the 2.2 release.
Software-only X and OpenGL should follow relatively
shortly, but hardware-accelerated OpenGL is still
some time off. See www.precisioninsight.com for
news about hardware-accelerated OpenGL.
</verb>
For more information see the Documentation/ of Linux kernel versions from
2.2.0 and newer. There is additional information available on the web on
<url url="http://oss.sgi.com/">. Note that the SGI/MIPS and SGI/Intel
people are working independently of each other, therefore the sources in the
anonymous CVS on oss.sgi.com may or may not work for Intel machines; we don't
test this.
There is some limited Linux support available for the older Visual
Workstations. The current series of Visual Workstations is an officially
supported SGI product, please see <url url="http://oss.sgi.com"> and
<url url="http://www.sgi.com"> for inoformation.
<sect2>Motorola 68k based machines like the Iris&nbsp;3000<p>
These are <sl>very</sl> old machines, probably more than ten years old by
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</verb>
where you insert linux, libc, gdb or faq for &lt;repository>.
The other important CVS archive of the Linux community is vger.rutgers.edu
The other important CVS archive of the Linux community is vger.kernel.org
where a lot of code is being collected before being sent to Linus for
distribution. Although vger itself no longer offers anonymous access, there
are mirror sites which do provide anonymous access. For details how to access
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<em>unsubscribe linux</em>. Note that you have to be subscribed if you
want to post; the growth of spam forced us into that policy. For more
information see also <url url="http://oss.sgi.com/mips/email.html">.
<tag><htmlurl url="mailto:linux-mips@vger.rutgers.edu"
name="linux-mips@vger.rutgers.edu"><p>
This mailing list has only very low traffic as most people tend to use one
of the above mailing lists. Subscription is handled via
<htmlurl url="mailto:majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu"
name="Majordomo (majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu)">; just send an email
with the words <em>subscribe linux-mips</em>. In order to unsubscribe send
<em>unsubscribe linux-mips</em>.
</descrip>
<sect1>IRC channel.<p>