Re: -RS/6000

[Jochen Kunz <jkunz%unixag-kl.fh-kl.de@localhost>]

On 2003.03.30 23:52 Matt Thomas wrote:

> > AFAIK NetBSD still lacks PPC601 support and MCA archtitecture
> > PPC machines are unsupported for sure. I am afraid but your one 
> > and onlychoice is AIX.
> NetBSD does have PPC601 support. 
This is new?  I remembered: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#601

> So the missing piece is MCA support.
Maybe this can be taken from i386... 

> Booting a prep kernel would be interesting...
Hmm. I have a RS6000/250. I think I give it a try the next days. 
I didn't know that the old MCA machines are "PRePish". port-prep
requires residual data (see panics in prep/machdep.c:initppc()) and
possibly ISA style serial / KBD / VGA IO. I don't have a clue about the
RS6000 MCA architecture. Are there some resources on the net? 
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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