On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Charles Fultz wrote:

> Okay, here's my situation.  I have an IBM PowerSeries 400 (model
> 6015-OUO, or maybe its 6015-0U0).  It has an IBM 604 CPU, PCI IBM video
> card w/ a Weitek P9100 graphics chip, on-board NCR (I believe) SCSI
> controller, ISA ethernet card (can't remember brand/chip),  and 192MB
> of RAM.  It is currently running AIX 4.3.2.  I would really like to
> have NetBSD running on this machine.
>
> I also have a few other machines: 2 x86's (one running Linux, the
> other FreeBSD), a Mac IIsi running NetBSD, a SparcLX running NetBSD,
> and a Sparc IPX, running Linux.
>
> Could you please help point in me the correct direction so that I can
> get NetBSD to run on my PS 400?  Should I do development in AIX on the
> PS 400, should I use one of my other NetBSD machines to do development
> for the PS 400, or should I take another route?
> I'm willing to do whatever I can to get NetBSD running on this
> machine.

	Again, someone who has worked directly on port-prep can probably
	answer better, but I would suggest compiling up
	cross/powerpc-netbsd from pkgsrc on a NetBSD box, then using
	it to compile a kernel for the PowerSeries. If you can get the
	kernel to start booting, then the fun begins :)

                David/absolute
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