Subject: Re: Port-s390
To: Sridhar Ayengar <sridhar@ikickass.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 04/01/2001 19:50:55
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