Hi all,
> some reinforcements are showing up soon.
A dream comes true ... No more me who writes almost all that code ...
SGI has hired David
> Miller, the guy that did most of the work on sparc linux, to come in
> as a summer intern and try and do the same for SGI machines. SGI is
> being pretty cooperative with this, in terms of supplying information
> and equipment for David to work on. *All* results will be GPLed (SGI
> will retain ownership so we can use it under a different copyright if
> we want) and all results will go out to the net.
>
> We will want to cooperate and coordinate with the existing
> Linux/MIPS team, seeing as you have accomplished so much already.
> I'm not sure how much overlap there is, since the SGI devices are probably
> different than the MIPS pc style devices, and the byteorder is different,
> but I'll bet there is a lot.
>
> Please add David Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu, to this alias so he
> can be made aware of your efforts.
Dave and some of his Sparc collegues are subscribed since quite some time
to this list.
Ralf
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