Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:15:31 +1100 (EST) From: Gavin Cameron <gavin@itworks.com.au> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RS/6000 port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003051114070.3668-100000@maybe.itworks.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000304173520.13688A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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I didn't say it would be easy ;-) I'd like to concentrate on the newer hardware. The B50 has a 604e in it. But it would be really funky to have FreeBSD running on an SP. Gavin On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Narvi wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Gavin Cameron wrote: > > > > > Is anyone interested in looking at the feasability of porting freebsd to > > IBMs RS/6000s? > > There are differenet kninds of RS/6Ks, and the processor arch. differs > between these. There are: > > * Power > * Power 2 > * PowerPC (PPC604) > * Power 3 > * Power 3-II > > At least one processor used in RS6K is SMT (even if AIX doesn't enable the > SMT). Like wise, there are both PReP and CHRP machines, possibly also others. > > There is a great variety of things hiding under the R6000 name. > > Feasibility depends both on how many people are interested and how much > documentation can be had. > > > > > I'm looking at getting a B50 for a couple of months and would like to get > > FreeBSD running on the box. > > > > Cheers > > Gavin > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-platforms" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-platforms" in the body of the message
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