Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:22:58 -0600 From: "Aron Silverton" <ajs@labs.mot.com> To: <freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: CompactPCI PPC platforms Message-ID: <3DDC2762.4050400@labs.mot.com>
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Hi all, I'm curious to know what work it would take to run FreeBSD-PPC on a CompactPCI system. I'm guessing that one would need kernel support for the PCI bridge chips used on the various host and peripheral boards and support, if not already available, for the onboard disks and various other peripheral interfaces which may use a particular chipset not common on desktops or notebooks. IPMI implementations are already available for FreeBSD, so that could just be merged. How far does the current FreeBSD-PPC implementation have to go until it would be ready for this type of work? How much, if any, of the NetBSD PPC implementation is being integrated into the FreeBSD implementation? I may have some PICMG 2.16 equipment including G4 equipped boards available next year. They would not be available for full-time development, but if I can manage to get some additional disks for the boards, I'm hoping to be able to swap them for the "production boards" when I'm not using the chassis for my normal work. Thanks, Aron -- Aron J. Silverton Senior Staff Research Engineer Motorola Laboratories, Networks and Infrastructure Research Motorola, Inc. mailto: ajs@labs.mot.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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