Re: Native linux port to PowerPC
Ben,
Actually, the machine I was talking about is not an RS/6000
machine. IBM did put out some PowerPC machines which run AIX.
Unfortunately, since I am not intimately familiar with the PowerPC
hardware, I cant tell you more about the hardware on this machine right
now (its at work).
I concede I may have been mislead by the PowerPC port pages at
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/installation . This page talks about
MkLinux stuff during the install. Or am I totally off-base (again), and
have found pages which have nothing to do with what you mention?
Anyway, I just discovered the mailing list that shaleh mentioned,
and I shall take all my questions to that list. Thanks for the info.
Regards,
Jor-el
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 12:12:52PM -0500, Jor-el wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yesterday I had the opportunity to install linux on an IBM
> > PowerPC, and I was looking forward to testing my favourite Linux distro on
> > this machine. However, I discovered after some searching around, that the
> > Debian PowerPC port is really an MkLinux port, rather than the native one
> > done by the www.linuxppc.org people. In fact, the only distro that does a
> > native PowerPC port is RedHat.
>
> Umm, Debian's PowerPC port is not MkLinux which is a microkernel based
> system. IIRC, RS6000 machines aren't really supported since they require
> a different type of bootstrap, and mainly just PowerPC Macs are supported.
>
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