From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (970321.SGI.8.8.5/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id PAA108215; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id PAA11228 for linux-list; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:21:01 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA11157; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:20:48 -0700 Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id PAA25572; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:20:35 -0700 env-from (ralf@informatik.uni-koblenz.de) Received: from thoma (ralf@thoma.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.61]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA02667; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 00:20:22 +0200 (MEST) From: Ralf Baechle Message-Id: <199708082220.AAA02667@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by thoma (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id AAA15810; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 00:20:18 +0200 Subject: Re: Linux GGI and Linux/SGI To: jwiede@blammo.engr.sgi.com (John Wiederhirn) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 00:20:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <9708081041.ZM971@blammo.engr.sgi.com> from "John Wiederhirn" at Aug 8, 97 10:41:46 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > Are there any plans to move (maybe it's already there) the > SGI version of Linux to a GGI-model design? > (see http://synergy.foo.net/~ggi/) Well, we have discussed using GGI. Last I checkend GGI was still itself in a state of flux and the last thing I want to do is to open another battle field. Technical reasons against GGI was mostly that the original design was very bloated as far as the kernel is affected. This has been improoved somwhat since. Ralf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Ralf Baechle Message-ID: <199708082220.AAA02667@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Subject: Re: Linux GGI and Linux/SGI Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 00:20:17 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <9708081041.ZM971@blammo.engr.sgi.com> from "John Wiederhirn" at Aug 8, 97 10:41:46 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: John Wiederhirn Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970808222017.zUsYWQhBb1yaF5hZaXGhdfu_omO993YwBYtEzz-GwBM@z> > Are there any plans to move (maybe it's already there) the > SGI version of Linux to a GGI-model design? > (see http://synergy.foo.net/~ggi/) Well, we have discussed using GGI. Last I checkend GGI was still itself in a state of flux and the last thing I want to do is to open another battle field. Technical reasons against GGI was mostly that the original design was very bloated as far as the kernel is affected. This has been improoved somwhat since. Ralf