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Re: BSD on an rs6k with MCA bus?
>>>>> "Frank (sysadmin)" writes:
Frank> I have two ibm rs6k's (a C10 and a C20), which are (early) powerPC
models,
Frank> with an MCA bus.
Frank> Currently, there is nothing that runs om them, besides AIX.
Frank> Is there any hope for them?
Hope, yes, but the memory management and other aspects of the chip
are different enough that one cannot use a PowerPC kernel. GCC supports
the POWER architecture and binutils POWER support easily could be adapted
for SVR4/ELF format.
David
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