From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] MIPS Support in Release 4 From: "rob pike, esq." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:55:24 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf34f2a0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > That's too bad. Is there any way to obtain a binary-only kernel? Perhaps > one from an older release? The release terms would need to be negotiated, it probably wouldn't run on your hardware, and since it would be from an ancient version of the kernel - the only SGI machine we still have is a hulking Challenge - many binaries wouldn't work properly. ls, for one. I've spent too much time trying to get SGI to let us spring our kernel loose. I'm not spending any more. -rob