Maurice Hilarius (maurice@harddata.com)
Sun, 04 Apr 1999 19:27:04 -0600
With regards to your message at 04:20 PM 04-04-99 -0400, Jeff DeMaagd.
Where you stated:
>On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 5116@telia.com wrote:
>
>> Does the 164RX make a good Linux board?
>
>It depends on wether you can actually get one. Last I checked, they were
>still manufactured with the unobtainium type material. I assume it would
>fly without the power connected.
>
>> I can see some support for it (core_polaris.c, sys_rx164.c) in the
>> 2.2.5 kernel sources, but it doesn't say how well it works.=20
>>
>> Also: If I would like to install Linux on such a board what
>> distribution do I use? It seems that none RH 5.2, Debian and the SuSE b
>> eta mentions support for this board. Can I find a boot disk with RC164
>> support for any of these some where on the 'net?
>
>The board isn't mass produced yet that I know about. Probably the people
>that have them can't say squat about them. And I don't have one. No
>distrubution can directly support what isn't sold yet.
>
>Jeff DeMaagd
Actually, I believe Jay++ had/has one for testing, and has produced a MILO
for it already..
As I mentioned before they have not been mass-produced yet due to a bug in
the chipset ( not the CPU). But now that TOEM division has been sold by
Compaq that changes. June is the predicted ETA for production boards.
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