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Re: BSD on an rs6k with MCA bus?



>>>>> "Frank (sysadmin)" writes:

Frank> I have two ibm rs6k's (a C10 and a C20), which are (early) powerPC 
models,
Frank> with an MCA bus.

Frank> Currently, there is nothing that runs om them, besides AIX.

Frank> Is there any hope for them?

        Hope, yes, but the memory management and other aspects of the chip
are different enough that one cannot use a PowerPC kernel.  GCC supports
the POWER architecture and binutils POWER support easily could be adapted
for SVR4/ELF format.

David



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