Eric Kimminau writes:
> Vince Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Hello again
> >
> > I was trying to see if I could get this Indigo2 to display that it is an
> > Indigo2 under /proc/cpuinfo [instead of current behavior, which assumes
> > all SGI's are indy's].
> >
> > Is it possible to figure out what system type it is from this info? Is
> > there another way to find out sgi system type? Or is this just not
> > possible?
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> The problem is that IP22 could be an Indy or an Indigo/2. Even under
> IRIX if you run hinv it doesn't tell you that a system is an Indy or
> an Indigo/2. Your only clues come from knowing additional bits about
> what is or is not Indy or I2 hardware. For example you would never
> see Impact graphics on an Indy and you would never see an Indy 8-bit
> graphics board on an Indigo/2 (although there were 8 bit boards on an
> Indigo/2 - I have been looking aorund internally to see if I can find
> one to see what it actually reports at command monitor for graphics).
> Further confusion would be to try and identify an older Indigo with an
> R4000 upgrade from an Indy.
One key difference is that Indigo2 always has an EISA bus and
Indy never does.
Note that the Linux kernel (like the IRIX kernel) has a way of
detecting the difference, since it needs to know which box it is
running on, so you could just get the kernel to export the data via
/proc somewhere. The kernel variable "sgi_guiness" is 1 if the system
is an Indy ("Guinness") and 0 if the system is an Indigo2
("FullHouse"). Look at the file indy_hpc.c to see how this is detected.
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