On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:13:56AM -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > So it *is* a powerPC system, but one without a PCI bus, but with an MCA bus.
> 
> That gets you a little bit closer.
> 
> But you'd still most likely need to write code for various support
> chips, and code to deal with booting (I'm assuming it doesn't use Open
> Firmware), etc. So it would still be a lot of work.

About the booting and Open Firmware: this is a term that i see reappearing
every now and then on the linux-rs6k pages and the {open,net}bsd ones.

What is it? And how do I know if I have it?

frank - who is affraid he's stuck with aix for a while :(
> 
> -- Dan
> 

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