On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:23:57PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> I've just got (for free :) an ancient MIPS ACER PICA 61 motherboard.
>
> Can anyone help/guide me to run Linux-MIPS on this machine ?
> Is it still possible to run Linux on this architecture ?
>
> The motherboard is old (~1993) and it is very difficult to find
> any documentations... AFAIK, this is version of ARC MIPS.
> (mipsel)
>
>
> This is Full-size AT board, AT power supply, 5 ISA slots, 8 SIMM
> slots. The CPU is PACEMIPS R4000-50Mhz (x2=100 internal ???) by
> Performance Semiconductor Corp.. NatSemi Ethernet/AUI onboard.
> No IDE connector. One additional slot is not ISA, but maked as
> IO an contains SCSI/Floppy/Serial/Perallel/Mice card. Another slot
> is like reversed EISA (double) and marked as VIO (locabus video?).
> Unfortunately, the original videocard is lost. :(
Great. Because that was a S3 968 video card which for it's time was
delivering quite a nice performance.
> However it works fine with old CirrusLogic VGA card in ISA slot (old
> ISA Trident 8900/9000 does not works).
Linux has code for this system but it's suffering from severe bitrot.
I still have the documents here so I could help you a bit if you were
willing to resurrect the kernel - which should be relativly easy, also
due to the system's similarity to another, somewhat better supported
system, the Olivetti M700-10.
Ralf
|