Linux On A RISC Box? 8
Noctrnl asks: "I've recently begun a search for a Linux distro to run on my old IBM RS/600 model 250 machines. A lot of PPC projects support the CPU architecture, but I have yet to find one that supports MCA on them. At every turn I can find a distro that supports the PowerPC chip on a PCI-based system, but have been unable to find a distribution that will run on my machines. Are there any projects underway that will allow me to boot a real operating system besides AIX on these babies? Just in case you were wondering, *BSD doesn't support them either."
MCA is the problem (Score:1)
Complain to IBM about proprietary architectures.
Re:IBM PPC+MCA (Score:1)
That said, I'm working on it now :-)
Re:MCA is the problem (Score:1)
Ignorantly answering (Score:1)
Re:MCA is the problem (Score:1)
Re:MCA is the problem (Score:1)
Re:MCA is the problem (Score:2)
I come up with the following on a quick search...
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/linux/mca.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/asm-i386/mca_dma.
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/config/mca.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/net/core/dev_mcast.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/net/ipv6/mcast.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/net/smc-mca.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/net/smc-mca.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/net/sk_mca.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/net/sk_mca.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/scsi/README.ibmmc
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/isdn/avmb1/avmcar
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/kernel/mca.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/Documentation/mca.txt
/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/include/linux/mca.h
This one is pretty lengthy:
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and also:
MCA Linux Home Page: http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/
This may be mostly x86 stuff, but hopefully you can find some info to help you along.
The MCA bus was a great thing at the time, but unfortunately is was kept closed and heavily taxed... better than standard ISA though, no doubt about that.
IBM PPC+MCA (Score:2)
I wonder how much the company would charge me for a 2xx series? Probably nothing.. Perhaps I've got a project..