Re: Invitation for the 1999 Linux Hacker's Meeting

1999-09-20 Thread Peter De Schrijver
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:07:36PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> This is the official invitation for the the 1999 Linux Hacker Meeting
> in Oldenburg (formerly known as m68k Hacker's Meeting[1]).
> 
>   Date: 15th + 16th October 1999
> 
>   Location: Oldenburg, University, Wechloy
> 
> The development meeting will take place at the same rooms like last
> year.  However, if "too" many people are coming, we're going to swab
> the rooms, so the bigger room would be used for working.  We're also
> organizing three independend power circuits that should help us avoid
> a general power failure. :-)
> 
> We will get sponsored IP from the computing center of our University.
> We are trying to get food sponsored as well.  At this time I can't
> give prognostics if and how successful we will be.  If we aren't,
> there will be fluid stuff and rolls etc. for regular prices.  If we
> are, they will be free of charge.
> 
> You may arrive on Thursday if you like.  You may also stay longer if
> you like.  If you need to picked up at the train station, let us know
> when you're going to arrive - i.e. tell us to receive a mobile number
> from one of us.
> 
> If you can't carry machines with you, I will probably take some
> special boxes from me for porting.
> 
>   1x HP9000/425 (m68k), 16MB
>   1x HP9000/425 (m68k), 8MB
>   1x HP9000/7xx (parisc)
>   1x DECsystem 5000/240 (mipsel), 64MB
> 
> [1] I have renamed the meeting from "m68k Hacker's Meeting" since not
> only 680x0 people are attending and not only this hardware is
> worked on.  The last meetings have shown that several people carry
> an alpha, powerpc, sparc or whatever with them.
> 
> To help us planing with the rooms, amount of food and other please
> fill out the following form and send it back to me.
> 
> --8<--8<--8<
> 
> Name Peter
> 
> Date of arrival ..: (x) Thursday, October 14th 
> ( ) Friday, October 15th 
> ( ) Saturday, October 16th 
> 
> Date of departure : ( ) Friday, October 15th 
> ( ) Saturday, October 16th 
> (x) Sunday, October 17th 
> ( ) Monday, October 18th 
> ( ) later
> 
> Number of machines ...: 3
> 
> Number of monitors ...: 2
> 
> Name may be placed on web page: (x) yes
> ( ) no
> 
> If you don't know how many boxes and monitors you're going to take
> with you, please give a rough guess.  We only need this information to
> properly plan for our power supplies and room requirements.
> 

Peter.


Re: Linux on a RS/6000 with PowerPC and MCA

2000-04-09 Thread Peter De Schrijver
Hi,

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 04:05:38PM -0700, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >   I haven't heard of anyone working on the MCA RS/6000's. You'd have
> > some code to write I'm sure.
> 
> Ayuh.  Glad I'm not the one to do it.
> 
> >   Speaking from the perspective of "IBM help". What'cha need? Perhaps I
> > might be able to first find it and second get permission to send it your
> > way.
> 
> Adam Fritzler appears to be the smart guy regarding the confluence of MCA
> and PPC.  Though he's pretty heavily loaded with Token-Ring issues, IIRC.
> 
> I suspect technical (HW- and register-level) docs for any PowerPC MCA
> RS/6000 boxen would do it.  But I don't know who should get it.
> 
> Someone with time, C skills and the appropriate hardware COULD raise their
> hand and describe their platform(s)...
> 
> MCA platforms I've seen so far on LPPC-WS (dupes are likely):
> RS/6k 250 
> 7011, 7012, 7013 PowerPC models
> PowerPC 42T
> RS/6k Mdl C10
> 

I have an rs/6k model 410, which is a 601 MCA based machine. It runs AIX 4.1
at the moment. (At least when I reassemble the machine :)).

> It would seem like the best tack would be to go after the MCA PowerPC
> boxen with an MCA port and a bootloader.  Once that's working one could
> then start playing with POWER's different MMU and instruction set. 
> Someone said that the PowerPC compiler can generate POWER code. 
> 
> And I counted about 5 people with boxes expressing serious interest
> in running Linux.
> 

The machine would be more useful if it ran linux of course :) 
I can help somewhat, time permitting...

> I don't count, as I don't kernel-hack or own any IBM RISC hardware.
> 
> BTW, any word on those PPC IBM NetFinity boxen's hardware?
> 

Uh ? I thought netfinity's are IA32 based server boxen ? At least the netfinity
5500 I have access to has a intel PentiumII CPU...

Peter.


working distribution

1999-02-11 Thread Peter De Schrijver
Hi, 

Where can I find a working debian/ppc distribution ? I am on a CHRP board.

Peter.