Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:11:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on S/390? Message-ID: <200103012211.f21MB5Y29968@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010301085555.65459D-100000@fledge.watson.org> "from Robert Watson at Mar 1, 2001 09:01:09 am"
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Robert Watson writes: | On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: | > Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM | > S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on | > a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to | > my surprise, it was taken seriously. | > | > So, has anyone done any work with getting FreeBSD running on a S/390? | > What can I do to make it happen if there's interest? | | fairly serious gap, and would like to remedy this. However, IBM hasn't | been dropping S/390 machines and documentation in anyone's laps (at least, | not mine, and no one else has mentioned it), so the primary facilitators | would be, as with any new hardware port: | | 1) Access to necessary technical documentation and expertise | 2) Access to hardware I would suggest people look at http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/ It is "an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390". So the first step would be to port that to FreeBSD and then you sort of have the hardware. It is supposed to run the Linux 390 port. I would think this would be a good starting point and since the emulator is open source it should be easier to figure out how the machine works. Doug A. Standard disclaimer applies To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-platforms" in the body of the message
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