On Tue, 2005-12-06 17:48:14 +0100, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:35:20PM +0100, Fruhen, Andreas, VF-Group wrote: > > I want to install Debian on a Bull Escala. I've found some old docs on > > the web but nothing very helpfull. > > I just know that it is a prep System. I probably have some problems with > > my Openfirmware. [...] > It works for my motorola powerstack II, but not for the IBM prep boxes, so i > don't know how it stands for the Bull Escala, but we had posts about this in > the past here, so i would be interested with feedback from the 3 above > kernels. I bet it won't work. Those Escalas I know about are early clones of IBM RS/6000 machines containing the famous MCA subsystem, which Linux doesn't right now support. AFAIK, There's not much documentation available for these systems. Michael Westermann (Cc:'ed) was working with one of these beasts (disassembling firmware to get a clue about the hardware architecture), but there's not yet Linux running on those (and it'll take a lot of time...) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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