Re: BSD on an rs6k with MCA bus?

[Frank Louwers <frank%student.rug.ac.be@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:46:48AM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

Well, sorry to argue with you, but you are not quite correct :)

It *is* a powerPC chip! (PPC 604) I checked it myself! In the early IBM
PowerPC days, they DID made a few PPCs with an MCA bus.

So it *is* a powerPC system, but one without a PCI bus, but with an MCA bus.
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