linux-kernel - Status of SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) support?

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Message-ID: <20080421141058.GH6011@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:10:58 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andrey Panin <pazke@...pac.ru>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Status of SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) support?

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:55:36AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>...
> VISWS is another matter.  It's entirely possible I have the only  
> remaining VISWS in my garage; we have at least not been able to locate  
> another.  Not that we have tried all that hard.
>
> If there are no VISWS' left, we should just unload the code.

Googling a bit around 320/540 hardware does not seem to have completely 
vanished from the earth, and there are still people who'd like to 
install Linux on them.

Looking through the archives of the mailing list in MAINTAINERS there 
seem to be some older 2.6 kernels that worked on some Visual 
Workstations, but no indication that recent kernels work.

Andrey, what is the status of recent 2.6 kernels on the SGI 320/540?

> 	-hpa

cu
Adrian

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