Subject: Re: Questions on IBM RS/6000 model 7006-41T
To: Matt Thomas <mthomas@allegronetworks.com>
From: David Rankin <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
List: port-prep
Date: 03/22/2001 13:33:47
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:59:15PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> Interest, ya.  But there needs to be a little work
> done:

> 	1) Add 601 support
> 	2) Add MCA support (shouldn't be that difficult
> 	   using the i386 mca support as a base).

And don't forget:
	3) Add non-PREP boot support.

The 41T is an "old-style" AIX box, certainly not a PREP or even CHRP box.
It will take a ton of work to get it going, but a ton that'd be greatly
appreciated because it'd make the 3xx, 5xx, etc. boxes fairly trivial to
bring into the fold.

David

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