Re: Linux on PPC upgrades?
Mklinux runs on the PPC machines that are nubus based...nubus machines have
no OF...thus no booter...maybe if they used the Penguin booter. On the other
hand, how much effort is anyone willing to put into a hardware base even
smaller than ours? ;-)
Russell
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>From: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
>To: "Ingvar Hagelund; UiO" <ingvar@unik.no>
>Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org, black-linux@black.linux-m68k.org
>Subject: Re: Linux on PPC upgrades?
>Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2000, 2:07 PM
>
>> > Wrong. LinuxPPC currently does only boot on Macs that have OpenFirmware
>> > (or BrokenFirmware).
>>
>> Well, that's almost correct. But not exactly.
>
> Well, the only Macs that LinuxPPC boots on are the OF models. I wasn't
> trying to imply it only boots on Macs :-)
> And the IBM does have some sort of OF, right?
>
> Anyway, I'm not aware that any 'stable' version of LinuxPPC runs on Nubus
> based Powermacs (I think I heard rumours of a port to Nubus based
> machines being underway but that seemed pretty early).
>
> Michael
>
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