Subject: Re: Port-s390
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
From: Sridhar Ayengar <sridhar@ikickass.org>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 04/01/2001 19:57:30
I am hoping my experience with S/370-S/390 assembler will help 8-).  I
would appreciate any help you could give.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> It would be really great if you could start an IBM360 (uhh, I guess it's
> been renamed since I did any work last, but it's still the same, mostly) port.
> I hope I'll have some time to help.  It's been a while since I did any mainframe
> work. :)
> 
>     -- Lennart
> 
> 
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
> > Do you yet have anyone working on a port for IBM S/390 mainframes?  I
> > would be interested in writing one.  I have access to a P/390 (Genuine G5
> > S/390 subsystems on PCI cards talking to each other across a PCI bus) at
> > home and S/390 mainframes at school and at work.  I go to school at Marist
> > College, where I was involved with the Linux/390 port, which was written
> > largely by students and professors here.  I work at IBM Microelectronics,
> > where I can get internal S/390 documentation (although I can't share it
> > with anyone outside of IBM, but I can use it for external purposes).  Let
> > me know what you all think.
> >
> > Peace...  Sridhar
>