Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:08:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 603e support (IBM thinkpad) Message-ID: <20030813190812.W50712@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3F3AC4A0.1D0F3DF0@freebsd.org> References: <20030813132316.O4580@fledge.watson.org> <3F3AC4A0.1D0F3DF0@freebsd.org>
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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
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