[fpc-devel] Testing MIPS: newbie questions [offline, private]

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 01:39:24PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > In 
> trunk, is there any particular reason why tbs/tb0072.pp refers to > 
> CPUSMIPS rather than CPUMIPS?
> Hey, what are you testing this on? I remember you got a new box but I 
> can't remember what it is....SGI something? Do they run big or little 
> endian?
> Israel

Somebody local was clearing an office, and I've just got hold of an SGI 
Octane (hopefully with a decent PSU this time) and an as-new Origin 200. 
Neither has Linux on it yet and they're big-endian, but having some real 
hardware around the place is always much more of an incentive than using 
emulators. I also got a (small) DEC Alpha system from him, haven't a 
clue whether it runs.

Also I got hold of an SGI Workstation 750 a few weeks ago- nice piece of 
kit, shame it's IA-64 (but that suits me, since I specifically wanted to 
be able to look at the bundled code format for something else I'm doing, 
and the Ski emulator's only good for nursery slopes).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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