Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 (MCA based)
To: P. Ekkebus <piet_e@zeelandnet.nl>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 05/21/2000 19:41:50
Hi, Piet & Andy...

> Can you tell me the status of this project ??
> I have a RS/6000 MCA based.

I have a little bit of documentation in my library for working on this
project, but probably not enough for significant progress.  I don't
think there is anyone who currently has the sufficient mixture of time,
knowledge, and equipment to work on this.
So, in short, there isn't much of a project for porting NetBSD to the
MCA-based RS/6000s.

> I am currently working on a linux rs6k(MCA) port. I am quite prepared
> to share whatever information I have accumulated, provided that you do
> the same. I have boot disks for pps(MCA) and POWER(MCA) machines and
> can output though the 3-digit display, however I cannot input anything
> from the keyboard yet.

Have you started documenting the things that you have found, or are you
maintaining a list of resources that you have used for your porting
effort?

I currently have the Fourth Edition of the "POWERstation and
POWERserver: Hardware Technical Information: General Architectures"
document from IBM (SA23-2643) in my library.  If you do not have it,
it would probably be useful.  The text notes that it should also be
available in the "CD-ROM Hypertext Information Base Library".

Pax,
-allen