I agree a complete working port for Indy should be the first priority. I
haven't been following this port till recently. But now I'm running it on
my Indy. Very cool. I haven't seen too many congrats to the core team on
this list, but good job people! Thanks for the hard work.
Jeremy Welling
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Alex deVries wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Jeremy John Welling wrote:
> > What is the next architecture sgi/linux will be ported to? Indigo2 r4kXZ?
> > What is the status of the newport Xserver? What is the best place to get
> > specific hardware info? Has anyone started on the Indy XZ graphics?
>
> This is an interesting question, and I for one would much rather see
> things like the graphics for Newport and audio working on the INdy before
> we start off on other things like the Indigo2.
>
> But, i've been thinking for awhile that an Indigo2 port would be the next
> box to target... i suppose there's no harm in looking at both machines
> concurrently.
>
> Getting docs on the Indigo2 would be quite important for a successful
> port, though. That would require SGI's help, and I can see them being a
> lot more open to it if we got the Indy completely supported first.
>
> - Alex
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