Re: Proposal for new architecture support/distribution
> Feature | Apple & Clones PPC | RS/6000 PPC | CHRP
> - --------------------+---------------------+---------------------
> ISA bus | No | Yes | Yes
> PCI 2.1 bus | Very Few | Yes | Yes
> PCI 2.0 bus | Very Few | Yes | ???
> MCA 80/160 bus | No | Yes | No!! :-)
> Onboard SCSI | Pre-G3 Only (Apple) | Yes (IBM) | Yes
> Onboard Sound | Yes (Apple) | Yes (IBM) | Yes
> Tablet Port | No | Yes (IBM) | no
> Parallel Port | Most | Yes | Yes
> Standard Serial Port| No | Yes | Yes
> SMP Hardware | *VERY* few | Most | some
> Maximum SMP CPUs | 2 | 12 (S70 AS) | 4 or so
> Works with PC PCI | No | Yes | Yes
> Works with PC ISA | No | Yes | Yes
ADB | Yes | No | Yes
SCC | Yes | No | Yes
PS/2 | No | Yes ? | Yes
Firmware | Yes | No ? | Yes
IDE | Yes | ??? | Yes
Big Rom / nvarm | Yes | ??? | Yes
>
> As you can see, there's a lot of things that IBM has, that Apple doesn't.
IBM is missing some ... :-)
Go and work on the kernel or help compiling stuff for powerpc. We need no
extra architecture.
> Or does differently. There are many things that a PC (PC being defined as
> an x86/IA-32 system) can use, such as pciutils, that an RS/6000 will
> likely also be able to use, that an Apple or clone will not be able to
> use. You wonder why MacOS doesn't run on RS/6000's? That's why. ;)
MacOS and also AIX is working for me. I have not tried AIX personally on
my board, but seen it on others CHRP boxes.
MfG,
Hartmut
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