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[20071218]
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NetBSD ported to the IBM MCA RS/6000 model 7006
Tim Rightnour has reworked NetBSD's powerpc-ports recently, and
with support from Kevin Bowling and he has announced the
NetBSD port to the IBM MCA RS/6000 model 7006
now, which makes NetBSD the first free Operating System to run on this
class of machines:
``The port was made to an IBM 7006-41T, which is a 601-based machine with MCA.
It has not yet been tested on any other machines, but most other MCA/PowerPC
based machines should be supportable. This port does not yet run on the
7012-3xx class of machines, or any other machine that has a POWER, POWER-RSC,
POWER2 or POWER2-SC CPU. POWER-class machines will require significant CPU
code to be written.
This port does not cover PReP-based IBM RS/6000 machines, for those, please see
port-prep. For OpenFirmware based RS/6000 machines, please see port-ofppc.''
See
Tim's posting
for more information on machines that are likely to run this port with
more or less effort, the state of the port, how to rebuild from NetBSD's
source, and a sample dmesg output.
[Tags: dmesg, ibm, mca, powerpc, prep, rs6k]
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