[jwhat]

Hi Raion & others,

on IRIX-32, can you advise on:

Why 32-bit ?
- One of fundemental leap-frog moves that SGI made with its MIPS line was to be first out the door with 64-Bit Architecture
- Seems that targeting 32-bit OS is ignoring the vast majority of SGI hardware being used by the SGI community

Why start clean room ?
- Surely it would be better to start with OpenBSD/sgi (which can boot on SGI machine I believe) or some other BSD kernel variant which has already resolved the legal/licensing issues, is proven to work and be portable.
- Then focus exclusively on the SGI/OS HW/SW interface areas and IRIX compatable ABI so exisitng Applications can run.

Best wishes for your endevours and apologies in advance if I have mis-interpreted what you are trying to achieve.

Greetings from Oz,

jwhat/John.