Re: NetBSD/prep on RS/6000 7024 E20

Jarkko Santala <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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Jarkko Santala <[email protected]>            http://www.iki.fi/~jake/
System Administrator                    2001:670:83:f08::/64
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