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

2000-04-07 Thread Aaron Burt
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 se

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

2000-04-07 Thread Aaron Burt
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Ralf Herzog wrote: > Is there a (even very little chance) to get something to boot (must not do > usefull things) on a RS/6000 Model 250 (with a PPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > MCA)? If > there is work in progress for this machine, I can offer (due to my spare > time) little suppor

Re: Blackhawk problems

1999-11-03 Thread Aaron Burt
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Matt Porter wrote: > This is a known problem with interrupt handling on PReP. > > It's harmless except that it is wasting a lot of cycles in irq servicing > for nothing (and syslog space). Good! I noticed the printcon about Blackhawk interrupt handling, figured I'd check. I'

Re: Blackhawk problems

1999-11-03 Thread Aaron Burt
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > 266 is a good value for 604e with 133 MHz. It is nearly factor 2 (1.99). Wow. Efficient. > What reports cat /dev/sndstat ? cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver loaded as a module Kernel: Linux a-aburt4 2.2.13 #3 Tue

Blackhawk problems

1999-11-03 Thread Aaron Burt
Well, I got DebPPC on my Blackhawk recently. However, both the PReP kernel supplied with the latest unstable and the one I built from the 2.2.13 source deb have a couple problems: Regular "Bogus Interrupt" messages that seem to be triggered by the keyboard. Bad BogoMIPS calculation? saytime an

RE: 43P Support

1999-05-04 Thread Aaron Burt \(Volt Computer\)
> From: Illuminatus Primus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > How does Linux run on the IBM RS6000 43P? If it runs, is there some > information about installating it? > > I'd appreciate any pointers! I'm forwarding Philip Jaenke's earlier message to you. (Doesn't this list have archives somewhere?)

RE: Linux for MVME1603?

1999-04-28 Thread Aaron Burt \(Volt Computer\)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > As the name would suggest, I have a board which is a Motorola > VME board based on the PPC 603. Anyone know where I might find Linux > for this beast? I don't know, but the folks at linuxppc-dev are talking about MVME2400, -2431 and -2306.

RE: Boot disks for PowerPC

1999-04-20 Thread Aaron Burt \(Volt Computer\)
> From: Hartmut Koptein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The c-files should compile all cleanly. But i fails horribly for makeing > the floppy-images. The binaries are to big for 1440 floppies. FYI, over in LinuxPPC land, the assumption is 2880 floppies. I use TFTP instead. But 1.44 would be nice o

PReP install disk?

1999-03-29 Thread Aaron Burt \(Volt Computer\)
Any chance there's an install image available?