NetBSD/sgimips

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About NetBSD/sgimips

NetBSD/sgimips is a port of NetBSD to the MIPS processor based computers from Silicon Graphics.

NetBSD was the world's first Open Source operating system to run on the Silicon Graphics O2.

Release Info

Mailing List

The NetBSD/mips mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to mips machine: [ subscribe | archive ]

Mail the NetBSD/mips port maintainer

Supported Hardware

Supported System Models

IP6 machines
- 4D/20
IP10 machines
- 4D/25
IP12 machines
- Indigo (R3000)
- 4D/30 (theoretical/untested)
- 4D/35
IP20 machines
- Indigo (R4x00)
IP22 machines
- Indigo2 (R4x00)
- Challenge M
IP24 machines
- Indy (R4x00, R5000)
- Challenge S (R4x00, R5000)
IP32 machines
- O2 (R5000, RM5200, R10000, R12000)

Supported Peripherals

On-board Z8530 serial interface (zsc(4))
On-board SEEQ 80c03 ethernet interface (sq(4))
On-board WD33C93 SCSI interface (wdsc(4))
On-board HAL2 audio interface (haltwo(4))
On-board AIC7880 wide SCSI interface on O2 (ahc(4))
On-board NS16550 based serial interface on O2 (com(4))
On-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2 (mec(4))
On-board framebuffer on O2 (crmfb)
On-board PS/2 keyboard/mouse on O2 (macekbc, pckbd(4), pms(4))
On-board Moosehead audio interface on O2 (mavb(4))
On-board framebuffer on Indy (newport(4))
On-board PC-style keyboard/mouse on Indy (pckbc(4), pckbd(4), pms(4))
On-board framebuffer on Indigo (grtwo(4), light(4))
On-board Z8530 based keyboard/mouse on Indigo (zsc(4), zskbd, zsms)
E++ GIO Ethernet Adapter (sq(4))
GIO32 SCSI Adapter (wdsc(4))
Phobos GIO G100/G130/G160 Fast Ethernet (tlp(4))
Set Engineering GIO 100baseTX Fast Ethernet (tl(4))
Most MI PCI devices
MI SCSI devices

Unsupported Hardware

R10000 Power Indigo2 (IP28) (on-going)
Octane (IP30) (required mips64 toolchain)
L2 cache on machines with R4600 CPU

Additional Info

Tags: tier2port

Links: ports projects/project/sgimips

Last edited Wednesday night, January 15th, 2025

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