On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:03:51AM +0000, paubert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:32:10AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:33:33AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 06:26, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:55:04AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 00:24, Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Anyone has it working already with Debian? > > > > > > > > > > Read the announcement properly, they won't ship until September in the > > > > > US... > > > > > > > > Err, august that is, no ? > > > > > > Same difference, it's not shipping for quite some time :) > > > > Notice that IBM also plan to ship some ppc 970 using boxes, so these > > would probably make decent linux boxes and support would be provided. > > > > This would not help for the applce specific chipset though. > > The question is how much of the chipset is Apple or IBM specific > and how much will be shared. I don't believe that doing two > completely independent designs makes much sense.
So you think that the north-bridge could be an Apple-IBM common design ? The rest is not as important, as it is connected trough a HyperTransport bus, so any HT chip will do. The funny thing is that they have a special PCI-X bridge sitting between the north bridge and the super IO chip. I guess this one is just a off-the-shelve piece, while the IO chip is of more common apple lineage. It has serial ATA, standard ATA for the SuperDrive (this one is a guess), USB 2.0, Firewire 800, networking and audio. Naturally, one could even build a PPC 970 motherboard with This IBM/Apple northbridge, some PCI bridge, and Nvidia's HT connected southbridges, not that we have much drivers for them though. Friendly, Sven Luther
