>________________________________ > From: Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-de...@telemetry.co.uk> >To: fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org >Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 6:38 AM >Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips > >microc...@zoho.com wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:56:06 -0700 (PDT) >> Leonardo M. Ramé <martinr...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> You are right, the machine >>> (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/560/specs.html) doesn't >>> have a MIPS processor, but an IBM's Power6. >>> >>> BTW, does anyone know which Linux distribution runs on that machine?, can >>> FPC be compiled to run on it?. Leonardo M. Ramé >>> http://leonardorame.blogspot.com >> >> Congrats, that's a nice box. POWER6 is one generation behind but from what >> I read it can still run the latest version of AIX. >> >> The best OS is the one IBM made for it, AIX which is a POSIX UNIX with >> IBM extensions (and great doc!). You should be able to get a copy without >> too much difficulty if one isn't already installed. >> >> On the same page you linked above, there is a list of some Linux that are >> certified to run on your box. Running Linux on it would be a horrible >> waste of a good server. You can probably virtualize Linux and BSD instances >> under AIX though, as you had mentioned in your first post. > >With the caveat that, as I understand it, this is a hardware-assisted >partitioning operation and is likely to have a very different "feel" from >things like VMWare. As an example (and possibly you can confirm this), my >understanding is that there are facilities in the system firmware, i.e. >accessed from something analogous to a "BIOS setup screen", that dictate how >SCSI devices will be distributed between LPARs. > >In any event, if Leonardo successfully runs Linux or BSD in a partition I hope >he writes it up somewhere. My PPC system is only an old Mac running Debian, >but I think having the info would be useful. > >-- Mark Morgan Lloyd >markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > >[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
I have no problem at all, in fact, I would like to create a VM for the FPC team for testing. Hopefully I'll start trying to create a Linux or Bsd machine on it this week. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
