Subject: Re: DECsystem 5500 support
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Paul Thompson <thompson@mail.athenet.net>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/02/1999 11:17:59
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > Folks,
> > 
> > I've started work on a DECsystem 5500 port (we have over a dozen of
> > these sitting in a rack :-) and still need to do a lot of work.  At
> > the moment, I have pretty much nothing done except detecting that it's
> > running on a 5500:
> > 
> :-) I have a 5500 myself, and started last summer to make the qbus
> code more MI, to be able to support the 5400/5500.

(snip) 

Is the DEC 5500 support compatible with the 5400?  Would there be any
benefit from booting the kernel on my 5400?