Re: Deskstation Tyne Raptop R4600 134mhz system

[ralf@uni-koblenz.de]

On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 07:02:30PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:

> The Deskstation support in Linux/MIPS has decayed away....

Well, except it's interesting DMA concept the Tyne was pretty much ok.
And a simple target - it's just a PC with a RISC CPU.

> In order to run Linux, you'll have to update about half a dozen
> smallish routines to cope the tyne's oddities.
> 
> OpenBSD/arc supports this machine.

The Tyne was never useable in Linux.  It was the first MIPS machine I used
for the Linux port.  I had to switch to the Acer PICA somewhen in late '94
or so when I found out that not Linux was buggy but my Tyne board broken.

  Ralf