Flameman/sgi
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indy
add on board support
| board over gio32 | kernel support |
|---|---|
| scsi add on | dunno |
| phobos g130 | dunno |
note: if you inclide the gfx framebuffer support in the kernel, then you CAN NOT boot with missing gfx hw board! The kernel is expecting to find it, if it is missing it will panic!
Suggestion: do not include the framebuffer, use uart console only
o2
add on board support
| board over pci | kernel support |
|---|---|
| _ | dunno |
impact
add on board support
| board over gio64 / eisa | kernel support |
|---|---|
| _ | dunno |
octane2
add on board support
| board over xio24 / pci cartridge | kernel support |
|---|---|
| v6 over xio24 | 2.6.17: no X11 support, pretty text console |
| impactSR over xio24 | 2.6.17: pretty X11 support, pretty text console |
What is the state of hardware support on this machine?
- V6, V8 gfx: X11 support doesn't exist, and likely won't for a very long while. Stan (the IP30 Port Author) recently got console mode running on this card, but from what I understand, this is a rather complex piece of video hardware. Remote X works, however.
- Impact gfx: X11 is working
- Onboard sound works well enough from what I hear. I tested several MP3s from console via mpg123, and they worked well. A new patch coming out next week (Jul 23-24) will enable support for the optical inputs/outputs for AES (ADAT capabilities will not be supported).
- Onboard Scsi works like a charm. It wasn't entirely usable about 3 weeks ago due to reliance on the old qlogicisp driver, but with some very recent fixes to qla1280, it has replaced qlogicisp. I now run a RAID5 array using 3 50G seagate drives on my Octane, and so far, everything works great (and hdparm reports ~17.4MB/s throughput).
- Onboard Ethernet works fine too. The IOC3 driver was recently re-written to make IOC3 more of a Bus device with peripherals hanging off of it, which makes IOC3 less of a nightmare device from a coder's standpoint (but not by much).
| CPU and memory | 64-bit kernel support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | |
| Memory controller support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | support for >1GB added in 2.6.12-R22 | |
| Interrupt support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| SMP support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| XIO support | Basic mapping | WP | work in progress - XIO API |
| Device discovery | WP | it basically works, but waits for XIO API | |
| Flow control | WP | soon to come in the new XIO API | |
| PCI support | Basic mapping | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | |
| Device discovery | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| 64-bit DMA | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| 32-bit DMA | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| System bridge | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Additional bridges | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| IOC3 support | Ethernet | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | also for IP27 |
| SuperIO meta-device | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | also for IP27 | |
| Serial ports | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | also for IP27 | |
| RS232/RS422 mode switch | <img src="check-0.gif" No | low priority task, but no real problems | |
| Parallel port | <img src="check-0.gif" No | unavailability of non-standard cable for testing | |
| Real Time Clock | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Software power down | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Voltage monitor | <img src="check-0.gif" No | low priority task, not enough information | |
| LEDs | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| PS/2 ports | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| SCSI support | Internal devices | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | |
| External devices | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| RAD1 support | Data DMA support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | |
| Status DMA support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Analog output | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Analog input | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| AES output | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| AES input | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| ADAT output | <img src="check-0.gif" No | no test equipment | |
| ADAT input | <img src="check-0.gif" No | no test equipment | |
| ALSA PCM support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | please report bugs! | |
| ALSA mixer support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| ImpactSR support | Linux console support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | |
| MPlayer output support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| X Window support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | shadowfb driver | |
| 24-bit depth setup | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Video mode change | <img src="check-0.gif" No | not enough information | |
| Image DMA | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Hardware cursor | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| 2D acceleration | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| 3D acceleration | <img src="check-0.gif" No | not enough information | |
| Flow control | <img src="check-0.gif" No | not enough information, lack of XIO flow control | |
| Multiple cards | <img src="check-0.gif" No | lack of test hardware | |
| VPro support | Linux console support | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | |
| X Window support | <img src="check-0.gif" No | complexity of accelerated X drivers | |
| 24-bit depth setup | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| 2D acceleration | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| 3D acceleration | <img src="check-1.gif" hspace="4">Yes | ||
| Image DMA | <img src="check-0.gif" No | it's not really easy |
dual boot
It should be possible if you set up IRIX as per normal and leave space on the drive for Linux. Install Linux as per the guide except when you get to set up the PROM. you'll want to leave that as is. Then you'd set up arcload to boot up Linux on demand.
- To boot IRIX, just switch the machine on.
- To boot Linux, drop to the monitor prompt and run boot -f arcload.
