On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Daniel Lamblin wrote:

> If I were to suddenly find the time, and have the inclination to, port NetBSD
> to another platform, I'd start with the netwinder which I could borrow from
> someone.
>
> But I have recently come into an IBM RS/6000 7009 C-10.  Its a small server
> that has an 80Mhz 601 PowerPC processor, and seems to use the Micro Channel
> Bus.
>
> I've found both linux and NetBSD has some MCA support for old PS/2 MCA
> Machines, but neither mention its use with the PPC.
> It may be a wasted effort, but with the recent availibility of such machines
> (see ebay) and licensing issues of AIX, a port might be desirable.
>
> How much work would be involved in moving NetBSD PPC to work with such a
> machine as the C10?

	NetBSD does not currently support the 601 CPU, though apparently
	that is not a massive job (its used in a number of early powermacs
	which is why its been brought up before :). The existing MCA bus
	support should be reasonably MI (I'd expect a few tweaks might
	be needed in the MI code, but nothing serious - hopefully :),
	and the prep port might provide a good starting point.

                David/absolute
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