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Matt Turner wrote: |
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> What are all the developers up to? CIA.vc has some interesting stats, |
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> mainly that everyone is totally inactive. |
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> |
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> Developer - Last Portage Commit Date |
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> kumba - Apr 17, 2009 |
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> iluxa - Dec 13, 2009 (don't see any MIPS related commits?) |
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> peitolm - Dec 07, 2008 (don't see any MIPS commits?) (marked in |
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> devaway as coming back from vacation on 22nd April 2009...) |
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> redhatter - Oct 26, 2009 |
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> ricmm - Mar 24, 2009 (marked in devaway as coming back within a month |
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> on 2009/08/17) |
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> |
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> I've seen kumba and redhatter on IRC, so I know they're around, |
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> somewhat. But where is everyone else? |
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> |
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> I'd really like to put Gentoo on my O2s, and can help out myself, but |
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> a couple active developers would be nice. |
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> |
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> Matt |
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I've just been tied up in job changes and buying a house and all the fun little |
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bits associated with that mess. I actually have my O2 somewhat updated, just |
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haven't looked at newer kernels yet. |
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Octane is dead right now. The bitrot finally consumed it, and while I got the |
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base code somewhat booting with clocksource and other bits, the death by INIT |
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hang stopped all development, since that kind of a bug is downright impossible |
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to debug on those systems. |
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I have an Origin 300 I'd like to eventually get Linux running on, but so few |
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people have access to those systems that the current code (2.6.29) can't |
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properly yank the MAC address out of the EEPROM on the things. It might be able |
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to boot to a ramdisk, but I never tried that far. I do have all the gear |
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necessary to make it available to anyone who wants a shot (serial switch w/ SSH |
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access, etc), just haven't finished plugging all the bits in just yet. |
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Efficiency wise, it'd destroy an Octane, which mine used to be a 550MHz R14000 |
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that drew ~303W. The O300 pulls like, ~200W and has 4x 500MHz R14000 procs in it. |
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Indy, Indigo2, Unsure. Should still boot. R10000 I2 is probably still bootable |
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too. |
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Still o32 on the userland. n32 is probably gambler's luck at this point. |
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Hope that gives you some idea of the status on things. MIPS is moving more |
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towards embedded stuff, leaving the only "workstation" gear to be the old SGI |
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systems and for those lucky enough, Longsoon development hardware. |
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Cheers!, |
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-- |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our |
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lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |