Re: BSD on an rs6k with MCA bus?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

        Is anyone interested in putting together a page containing
        information on MCA based rs6k machines, in particular resources
        that would help anyone working on a port?

        If someone wants to do the work but does not have a machine to
        host, I'm sure we can find one :)

                David/absolute

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Frank Louwers wrote:

> 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.
> -- 
> Frank Louwers                                      Unix System Administrator
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