Re: IBM Rs6k 43P-140

"David W. Rankin Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:32:29PM +0200, Zen wrote:
> Hi,
> 	been looking around for more info, but didn't find anything
> 	exaustive: I'm a netbsd newbie trying to install netbsd on a
> 	7043 system, 43P-140.
> 	It seems it's a prep system. Fine. Even if not listed among
> 	supported platforms. Fine. It even boots the latest
> 	sysinstall_com0.fs from the snapshot (20020502).
> 	It hangs for a stupid IRQ sharing problem, for what I see.
> 	Bad.

The 43P-140 is a CHRP system, not a PREP system. These machines are
much closer to the OpenFirmware Macs (since the CHRP firmware is built
on top of a functioning OpenFirmware) than the PREP RS/6000 boxes. 

It might make sense to make these machines part of the macppc port,
or to "fork" the macppc port into a "port-chrp" effort.

Thanks,
David

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David W. Rankin, Jr.     Christian, Husband, Father, and UNIX Sysadmin. 
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