: One of the design ideas in Milo was that there is a lowlevel library
: containing the interface to the os. Milo itself uses the library
: interface. The library interface again exports functions that look somewhat
: like unix systemcalls. Stoned's version 0.27 of Milo will make this
: difference much clearer. It might be a good idea to have one common
: bootloader package for ARC, SGI and as many others as possible.
SGI's stand alone shell takes the exact same approach. There is a library
which is basically the SGI BIOS. I'll go check and see if I can give you
guys access to all of that. It would be cool to merge this stuff. By the
way, I have no great love for SGI's stuff, using it would be done only if
it's the easiest path. Having MILO work on SGI hardware would be cool.
: Btw - Linux 1.3.95 has a read-only implementation of UFS mainly for use
: by Linux/Sparc. There are many variations of UFS in use. I dunno if the
: Linux version is what SGI uses but anyway SGI's main filesystem are efs
: and xfs in the future.
We don't have a UFS file system.
: > I know that MIPS has published a bunch of errata on the web, including
: > ones for the R4000. Don't know if the 2.2 is one in the list or not,
: > but will check my printed copies when I get home. None the less, it
: > would be good to have more complete versions of these items if they
: > were available. However, I just tried the address I have for this
: > data, and I can't find it now.
:
: I think the information isn't really complete.
Yes, I believe you are correct. The current set of info is at the
copy center for David & and getting 2 spare sets. This stuff is all
SGI NDA material, unfortunately. However, David isn't under NDA and
we are giving him a copy. I'm pretty sure that if you will agree not
to publish or redistribute **the documents**, I can get you copies and
you can redistribute the code that you write using those documents.
I think the SGI concern is that if too many people code to our internal
interfaces we'll be stuck with 'em. It doesn't make sense to me either,
that's just what I was told. Whatever, if you are willing to send a
letter swearing you won't copy or redistribute the docs, I'll work on
getting you a copy.
: > The cross compiler stuff is fairly easy to generate. For the SGI
: > platform, it should go well. There is a howto generate cross
: > compilers web page hanging off the Linux-MIPS howto page that should
: > give you what you need to know to build the goofy things, should you
: > require assistance. There are a numnber of minor gotchas, so you
: > might want to glance there first.
:
: Gimme an account on an SGI and you'll have the crossdevelopment a bit
: later :-)
Really? Let me look into this. I think I could get a Challenge/S outside
the firewall as a CVS machine that you could hack on. Try pinging sgi.com
and tell me what the response time is like.
--lm
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