Re: 7028-6E1 (pSeries 610) and how to burn cd

"..I'd rather be coding ASM!" <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:07:23 +0200 (EET)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim, I'd be extremely interested in helping out with an RS64 port. I've a 
couple of AS/400's at home I mostly potter about in i5R3 and i5r2 on.

Al.

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Tim Rightnour wrote:

>
> On 04-Jan-2012 Frank Wille wrote:
>> Note that Tim only managed to net-boot in single user mode, so I
>> wouldn't expect much. Booting from CD will probably fail.
>>
>> But a test would be very interesting.
>
> In theory, it should work just fine.  The 7044-270 was fully supported in
> multiuser, except for SMP.  There might be a little bit of bitrot on the port,
> which I intend to try and get to soon.  I would be very interested in seeing a
> test boot of that 7028.  CD should work, in theory, if not, netboot.
>
> The POWER4, RS64 and above chips are not yet supported.  It's on my list, but
> in the near term, I'm working on fixing prep booting right now.
>
> ---
> Tim Rightnour <[email protected]>
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>

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