Hi, On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 04:05:38PM -0700, Aaron Burt wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I haven't heard of anyone working on the MCA RS/6000's. You'd have > > some code to write I'm sure. > > Ayuh. Glad I'm not the one to do it. > > > Speaking from the perspective of "IBM help". What'cha need? Perhaps I > > might be able to first find it and second get permission to send it your > > way. > > Adam Fritzler appears to be the smart guy regarding the confluence of MCA > and PPC. Though he's pretty heavily loaded with Token-Ring issues, IIRC. > > I suspect technical (HW- and register-level) docs for any PowerPC MCA > RS/6000 boxen would do it. But I don't know who should get it. > > Someone with time, C skills and the appropriate hardware COULD raise their > hand and describe their platform(s)... > > MCA platforms I've seen so far on LPPC-WS (dupes are likely): > RS/6k 250 > 7011, 7012, 7013 PowerPC models > PowerPC 42T > RS/6k Mdl C10 >
I have an rs/6k model 410, which is a 601 MCA based machine. It runs AIX 4.1 at the moment. (At least when I reassemble the machine :)). > It would seem like the best tack would be to go after the MCA PowerPC > boxen with an MCA port and a bootloader. Once that's working one could > then start playing with POWER's different MMU and instruction set. > Someone said that the PowerPC compiler can generate POWER code. > > And I counted about 5 people with boxes expressing serious interest > in running Linux. > The machine would be more useful if it ran linux of course :) I can help somewhat, time permitting... > I don't count, as I don't kernel-hack or own any IBM RISC hardware. > > BTW, any word on those PPC IBM NetFinity boxen's hardware? > Uh ? I thought netfinity's are IA32 based server boxen ? At least the netfinity 5500 I have access to has a intel PentiumII CPU... Peter.
