From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 16:09:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCE637B401; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939F943FBF; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:09:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7DN8gAL052443; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:08:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from localhost (arr@localhost)h7DN8gnY052440; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:08:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: arr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:08:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" To: Peter Grehan In-Reply-To: <3F3AC4A0.1D0F3DF0@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20030813190812.W50712@fledge.watson.org> References: <20030813132316.O4580@fledge.watson.org> <3F3AC4A0.1D0F3DF0@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 603e support (IBM thinkpad) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:09:10 -0000 Uncertain. Receiving hardware tuesday so I am currently not exactly sure what I will have. I will send an update next week. Thanks for the reply. Cheers, Andrew On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Peter Grehan wrote: :Hi Andrew, : :> I am receiving a IBM Power Series laptop in the mail within a few days and :> am very interested in attempting to get FreeBSD work on this "age" of PPC :> going. I read a previous email on the freebsd-ppc mailing list stating :> the difficulties in getting FreeBSD going on this type of PPC chip. I :> also noted that you have a similar 603 chip laying about. : : There might be some confusion: the 860 is the Motorola MPC860 'PowerQUICC', :whereas I think the IBM laptop has a model number of '860' : : Is it one of these ? : :http://www2.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?request=salesmanual&parms=SMS&xh=aVxB3ceuwvyczq1USenGnN9332&xhi=usa.main%7Csalesmanual%5E&type=D&search=&title=T&product=7249 : : The 603e processor isn't too far off from the G3, and I don't think any of the :differences would be exposed in the current FreeBSD port. : :> Perhaps we could lay out some plans as to how we _could_ go about adding support for :> this chip? : : The most difficult task would be device support for the system controller, interrupt :controller (if it isn't OpenPIC), and peripherals. While it is theoretically possible to :use OpenFirmware for all i/o (i.e. NetBSD's ofwppc port), that would be hideously :slow, so I think you'd have to extract h/w info from Linux source. : : There's some good info on getting Linux to work on these machines at: : : http://penguinppc.org/projects/ : :later, : :Peter. : -- Andrew R. Reiter arr@watson.org arr@FreeBSD.org