Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:43:20 -0400 From: "Timothy Prickett Morgan" <midserver@worldnet.att.net> To: <freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Will FreeBSD work on an RS/6000 or AS/400 Message-ID: <001701c0f809$5c0c06a0$cbfcfea9@tim>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] A question IBM's RS/6000 and AS/400 processors are 64-bit PowerPC chips with a 32-bit mode that supports Linux 2.4. Linux is supported on some RS/6000 models directly, and on some AS/400s within logical partitions. My question is whether FreeBSD will work on either RS/6000s or AS/400s wherever Linux works? Or will it require special drivers for disk, I/O, graphics, etc? Will the same drivers that work with Linux work with FreeBSD (I suspect not, but it doesn't hurt to ask.) Thanks for your help Timothy Prickett Morgan Editor Monday Morning AS/400 Update www.midrangecomputing.com/mmu 212 942 5818 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>A question</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>IBM's RS/6000 and AS/400 processors are 64-bit PowerPC chips with a 32-bit mode that supports Linux 2.4. Linux is supported on some RS/6000 models directly, and on some AS/400s within logical partitions. My question is whether FreeBSD will work on either RS/6000s or AS/400s wherever Linux works? Or will it require special drivers for disk, I/O, graphics, etc? Will the same drivers that work with Linux work with FreeBSD (I suspect not, but it doesn't hurt to ask.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks for your help</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Timothy Prickett Morgan</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Editor</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Monday Morning AS/400 Update</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="http://www.midrangecomputing.com/mmu">www.midrangecomputing.com/mmu</A></FONT></DIV>; <DIV><FONT size=2>212 942 5818</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>home | help
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