From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 13:50:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA03658 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:50:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03651 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA18602; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:50:20 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:50 EDT Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA23857; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:33:49 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA06898; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:33:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:33:49 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199604261733.NAA06898@lakes> To: atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith@dg-rtp.dg.com, support@cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Microchannel? (fwd) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jamil Weatherbee stands accused of saying: > > I recently purchased FreeBSD 2.1 without noticing that microchannel bus > > PC's were not listed under system requirements. Does this mean it will > > be impossible, extremely difficult, or achievable if I try to install > > this on an mc based machine? > > Totally impossible at this point. IBM won't release documentation on > the MCA, so it's not possible to write code to support it. > > > Dave Rein > Hmmm.... seems like I remember someone getting pretty far with it. Also, I have a friend who claims to have gotten all of the needed doc from IBM; he's just "itchin'" to port FreeBSD to MCA... - Dave Rivers -