Re: New portmaster for NetBSD/ofppc
Jeremie Le Hen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Tim, all, On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:33:42PM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote: > It is slightly confusing. Here is the breakdown for IBM RS/6000 machines: > > ofppc: CHRP (OpenFirmware) based RS/6000's. Generally black machines. > prep: PReP based machines. Beige with PCI. > rs6000: (in progress still) Beige with MCA. > > The differences in the machines is basically the firmware they ship with, and > that is the dividing line for which port they run. This is generally the case > with most of the PowerPC ports, the firmware is what divides them up. > > Anything reasonably new from IBM will be targeted on ofppc, as they stopped > shipping PReP based machines many years ago. Is it documented somewhere? Thank you, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >