Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:56:52PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 
>  > I got my Bull (Motorola) Escala T604e today. It seams to be a PREP
>  > machine. See the the OpenProm properties at the end of the mail. 
>  > Also: I found no RTAS, that is a requirement for CHRP / RPA. 
>  > 
>  > [...]
> 
> Anyway, the Bull machine should probably be supported by the "ofppc"
> port.  Chuq Silvers is currently doing some work there.  I seem to
> recall those machines being very similar to the Firepower systems

Unless I'm mistaken, the Escala was successfully booted up to root
device selection back in the days when it was still called
NetBSD/powerpc.  I'm not aware of anything but OpenFirmware being
available for this machine, and NetBSD/prep will currently choke
without Residual Data.

> (the firmware stuff you quote below looks very familiar :-)

Unsurprisingly, so does that of my Bull Estrella 300^W^W^WMotorola
PowerStack II. :-)


- Klaus