Subject: Re: Porting to IBM Risc 6000
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@maja.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 08/08/2002 09:18:28
At 02:24 AM 8/8/2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:17:04AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
>[port to POWER based RS/6000?]
> > >Is there any chance of getting some activity going here?
> > Chances are very good. I just bought myself a 7043-260 (dual Power3)
> > system to start the work.
>I have an old RS/6000-250 MCA machine that I can throw in for testing.
>Or is the target of this porting effort only the _64_ bit POWER machines?
That's definitely a prep machine. the 7043-260 is a CHRP machine.
Since it uses OFW, I'll start off making it a ofppc variant (probably
called CHRP or rs6000). I'm going to start on a 32bit port first and
once that's stable long with a stable 64bit PPC toolchain, I'll move to
64bit. When that happens, we have lots of fun things to decide...
> > Finally got a 64bit PowerPC system at a price I could handle. :)
>Similar to me. I will get a B50 (7046-B50, "only" 375MHz PPC604e) for
>400,-EUR tomorrow. This machine seams to fit better to port-prep
>(see my questions about ppc ports confusion...), but maybe there are
>some MI things that can be shared.
It depends. does the B50 have OFW or not?
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