RE: Advice sought

[Bill Rees <bill_rees%firepower.com@localhost>]

You might contact FirmWorks to see if they have a version of open firmware
available that runs on your box.  Alternatively, you could buy the
powerstack || single processor since I believe there is a port for that one
as well.  Who knows.  The powerstack || might have the exponential chip
available for it sometime too!

bill

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>From:  Gregory Kritsch[SMTP:gkritsch%zeus.leitch.com@localhost]
>Sent:  Friday, October 25, 1996 8:41 AM
>To:    port-powerpc%NetBSD.ORG@localhost
>Subject:       Advice sought
>
>Hi.
>
>I work for a company that is currently using FreeBSD on Pentiums for
>product
>development.  Having source code is, at the moment, important to us, since
>we
>develop hardware as well and occasionally need to fix the kernel (we
>recently
>added some aio support, for example).
>
>I also run NetBSD/amiga at home.  I plan to buy a PowerPC next, if a *BSD
>can
>be found that runs suitably (ie. NetBSD).
>
>For a while we've been watching the Motorola PowerPC stuff develop, since
>it
>would make a nicer hardware platform for us.  Having found the
>NetBSD/powerpc
>port, I'm now going to try to evaluate it.
>
>My problem is this: we have a Motorola PowerStack E series, with a 604
>processor
>.
>It currently runs PPC1BUG firmware and AIX.  It is upgradeable to support
>OFW,
>but I think that eliminates my ability to run AIX.  So I'm wondering if
>anyone
>has any experience or suggestions on how I can get this thing up and
>running
>with NetBSD.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Gregory
>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Gregory Kritsch     E-Mail: gkritsch%zeus.leitch.com@localhost
>Leitch Technology International Inc.
>