[rescue] RS6000 boxen

Julius Sridhar vance at ikickass.org
Wed Jan 23 04:32:33 CST 2002


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> > NetBSD won't run on this yet.  It's not that far off.  Most of the
> > bits are there.
>
> Hmmm. OK. i386 has MCA support now. But when I look at the PREP port (we
> have 13 43P-100 at the Unix-AG and are looking for an alternative to AIX
> to run on some of them.) I see  that the last snapshot is 1 1/2 years
> old and the port is still experimental. So I doubt that there will be
> anything for POWER in the near future.

All the stuff that has been developed for PowerPC applies to POWER (at
least for the most part.)  It's just a matter of someone doing the grunt
work and ironing out the kinks.

Peace...  Sridhar



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