looking for mips64 h/w

Our SoC student working the MIPS64 port has had trouble
locating 64-bit
compliant hardware.

Can anyone help out here?  A malta or similar would probably
be ideal,
but an older SGI would probably work too.  In an ideal
world, I'd also
get a loan, as mentor, as I only have 32-bit MIPS h/w.  But
I can
probably get by with qemu for now.  Anyway, the loan of a
machine or two
for a couple of months (for the Summer Of Code duration)
would be
greatly appreciated.

For now our student is going to be working on qemu, until he
gets
hardware.  (One advantage of someone sending us hardware is
that it is
most likely that it will be *that* particular 64-bit
platform that gets
supported best/first. 

Thanks!

-- 
Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecom
puter.com/
Phone: 951 325-2134  Fax: 951 325-2191

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:28:44PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore
wrote:
> Our SoC student working the MIPS64 port has had trouble
locating 64-bit
> compliant hardware.
> 
> Can anyone help out here?  A malta or similar would
probably be ideal,
> but an older SGI would probably work too.  In an ideal
world, I'd also
> get a loan, as mentor, as I only have 32-bit MIPS h/w. 
But I can
> probably get by with qemu for now.  Anyway, the loan of
a machine or two
> for a couple of months (for the Summer Of Code
duration) would be
> greatly appreciated.

I, like Jan Schaumann, have an Octane available, but in
Iowa.
However, I can't really afford to ship it, let alone to
China.

But, if I can be of any help testing stuff I'd try to do
what I can.

And yes, (at least this one anyway) SGI boxes can do serial
console.

Also, I may be able to get a console server, netboot file
selection thing and power cycler setup if it would be
useful.

	Jonathan Kollasch

Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:28:44PM -0700, Garrett
D'Amore wrote:
>   
>> Our SoC student working the MIPS64 port has had
trouble locating 64-bit
>> compliant hardware.
>>
>> Can anyone help out here?  A malta or similar would
probably be ideal,
>> but an older SGI would probably work too.  In an
ideal world, I'd also
>> get a loan, as mentor, as I only have 32-bit MIPS
h/w.  But I can
>> probably get by with qemu for now.  Anyway, the
loan of a machine or two
>> for a couple of months (for the Summer Of Code
duration) would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>     
>
> I, like Jan Schaumann, have an Octane available, but in
Iowa.
> However, I can't really afford to ship it, let alone
to China.
>   

Hah.  I guess these are pretty heavy boxes. 

> But, if I can be of any help testing stuff I'd try to
do what I can.
>
> And yes, (at least this one anyway) SGI boxes can do
serial console.
>
> Also, I may be able to get a console server, netboot
file
> selection thing and power cycler setup if it would be
useful.
>   

Those would be really, really useful.  Either LIU Qi (Qi is
his given
name) or I will get back to you.

    -- Garrett
> 	Jonathan Kollasch
>   


-- 
Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecom
puter.com/
Phone: 951 325-2134  Fax: 951 325-2191