Subject: Re: FAQ: PREP / CHRP / ofppc / macppc confusion.
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 08/05/2002 16:19:54
PReP was the PowerPC Reference Platform -- trying to create a
common system design for PowerPC systems. It was superceded by CHRP --
Common Hardware Reference Platform. CHRP always uses OpenFirmware.
I believe that some PReP systems can be made to look enough like
CHRP systems so that CHRP boot images will run.
A lot of new systems are deviating from the exact CHRP standard,
but still provide the OpenFirmware boot environment and are mostly CHRP
compatible -- they are CHRP compatible but not CHRP compliant.
David