Re: Teron CX Motherboard Support

["Henry B. Hotz" <hotz%jpl.nasa.gov@localhost>]

At 1:01 PM -0800 12/16/02, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> > At 4:09 PM -0800 12/15/02, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> > > I posted this to port-powerpc but I thought I would post it here too:
> >
> > I don't see any mention of Open Firmware.  Does the spec they're 
> > using require OF?  If so then port-ofppc should "just work".
>
> It uses something called PPCBoot that was designed to run Linux. 
> Information on PPCBoot is available at:
>
> http://ppcboot.sourceforge.net/

Interesting.  Very definitely not Open Firmware though.

> It uses an IBM 750CXe 600MHz G3 processor and an Articia S North 
> bridge. More of the details about the board are available at:
>
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/boxer/teron_cx.shtml
>
> I have been looking into what it would take to port NetBSD myself 
> and I have started digging up information on the chip and so forth. 
> Any suggestions or interest in working on the porting?

Not me.  Frankly the motherboard looks like it's not much cheaper 
than buying an old Mac of comparable performance.  I do like seeing 
choices though.
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