[rescue] RS6000 boxen

[Julius Sridhar]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:32:33AM -0500, Julius Sridhar wrote:
>
> > All the stuff that has been developed for PowerPC applies to POWER (at
> > least for the most part.)
> AFAIK POWER and POWERPC are similar, but still different.
> I remember a thread on tech-kern regarding the problems of
> supporting the PPC 601 CPU... So the trouble is already
> right there.

Well, the 601 is different from anything else, but you're right.

> > It's just a matter of someone doing the grunt
> > work and ironing out the kinks.
> That's it. There hapens only somthing if someone make it hapen.
> That is one reason why I am currently working on a RX02 driver
> for NetBSD/VAX. I mostly doing it to educate myself in kernel
> programming / internas. I am also using this opportunity to write
> a doc about device driver programming under NetBSD. (Mostly a
> report of what I have done / what is needed to know / do.)
> When that is finished I plan to donate some time to the PREP port...
>
> So, nice to hear that you will spend your time for NetBSD/s390
> and NetBSD/POWER. ;-)

Right now, it's just NetBSD/s390.

Peace...  Sridhar