Re: Porting to IBM Risc 6000

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

At 02:24 AM 8/8/2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:17:04AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
> [port to POWER based RS/6000?]
> > >Is there any chance of getting some activity going here?
> > Chances are very good.  I just bought myself a 7043-260 (dual Power3)
> > system to start the work.
> I have an old RS/6000-250 MCA machine that I can throw in for testing.
> Or is the target of this porting effort only the _64_ bit POWER machines?

That's definitely a prep machine.  the 7043-260 is a CHRP machine.
Since it uses OFW, I'll start off making it a ofppc variant (probably
called CHRP or rs6000).  I'm going to start on a 32bit port first and
once that's stable long with a stable 64bit PPC toolchain, I'll move to
64bit.  When that happens, we have lots of fun things to decide...

> > Finally got a 64bit PowerPC system at a price I could handle. :)
> Similar to me. I will get a B50 (7046-B50, "only" 375MHz PPC604e) for
> 400,-EUR tomorrow. This machine seams to fit better to port-prep
> (see my questions about ppc ports confusion...), but maybe there are
> some MI things that can be shared.

It depends.  does the B50 have OFW or not?


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