[rescue] WTB: SGI (MIPS architecture) Systems

[Andrew Jones]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:44:56PM -0600, Robert Darlington wrote:
> Believe it or not, somebody made a graphics board for the O200
> systems.   They worked great up till SGI terminated their agreement
> with them (I forget the company, forgive me) and the custom kernel
> mods went away so they stopped working.  I had very mission critical
> systems running very old versions of 6.5 because we required the
> graphics boards in these things.   "we" should be taken very loosely
> here as to not include ME!
> 

Some guys on Nekochan actually got an SE or SI board set from an Octane
working in the O200.  They had to mangle it to make it physically fit into
the O200 XIO, but at the firmware/software level, it didn't seem terribly
complicated.