Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:22:09 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: bsd@picard.mandrakesoft.de, Namiko Tsukino <namiko@cheerful.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix on PS/2 Message-ID: <19990926012209.D2759@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <37ED39F7.FC41429C@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909251309530.628-100000@picard.mandrakesoft.de> <37ED39F7.FC41429C@3-cities.com>
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On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:09:11PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
> bsd@picard.mandrakesoft.de wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Namiko Tsukino wrote:
> >
> > > Alrighty...I happen to have accquired an old PS/2 today, and after
> > > looking through the windoze crap on it I've decided that its only
> > > salvation could be as either a Linux box or Unix system...It's only got
> > > 77MB of harddisk space toal (why 77...I don't know), so even the
> > > smallest distribution of Linux will not run on it.
> >
> > Not true. The smallest Linux distribution fits on a 1.44 MB floppy disk.
> > You shouldn't have a problem with FreeBSD either - just pick what you
> > prefer.
>
> I thought the ps/2 has the MCA bus, which FreeBSD doesn't support.
>
Looks like someone has added the support....
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 09:21:32 +0100 (BST)
From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@freebsd.org>
Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/mca mca_bus.c
mca_busreg.h mca_busvar.h
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909030920500.2081-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909030340.UAA04309@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> mdodd 1999/09/02 20:40:01 PDT
>
> Modified files:
> sys/conf files
> Added files:
> sys/dev/mca mca_bus.c mca_busreg.h mca_busvar.h
> Log:
> This is the rest of the MCA support; new_bus code to be exact.
>
> Should we ever find ourselves on an RS/6000 this code should work
> with few changes.
Excellent! This thing has been asked for since the 386bsd days...
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