Re: NetBSD/prep on RS/6000 7024 E20
Jarkko Santala <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep |
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On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jochen Kunz wrote: > On 2003.01.15 09:27 Jarkko Santala wrote: > > > Would it be possible to run NetBSD/prep on a RS/6000 7024 E20? > There is no definition for this machine in the source, so it is very > likely to fail. > > Has this machine OpenFirmware? If yes port-ofppc is the way to go. But > if you want the machine dependent code to use PCI etc. you have to write > it yourself. ;-( I'm hardly a coder so writing it myself is not an option, I just wondered if it would happen to work. ;) Afaik it is prep and not openfirmware, I can boot a debian/prep kernel quite a bit further and I've read reports that people have had a full Linux system running on the same model. -jake -- Jarkko Santala <[email protected]> http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64