From owner-freebsd-ppc Mon Jun 18 17:36: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jeamland.net (rafe.jeamland.net [203.18.243.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DC237B401 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:36:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benno@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mail.jeamland.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7857470606; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:36:03 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:36:03 +1000 From: Benno Rice To: Timothy Prickett Morgan Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD work on an RS/6000 or AS/400 Message-ID: <20010619103602.A25253@rafe.jeamland.net> References: <001701c0f809$5c0c06a0$cbfcfea9@tim> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001701c0f809$5c0c06a0$cbfcfea9@tim>; from midserver@worldnet.att.net on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:43:20AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:43:20AM -0400, Timothy Prickett Morgan wrote: > A question >=20 > 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? I don't have any plans to target IBM's boxes at this point. There are other people who may have plans in this direction however. > Or will it require special drivers for disk, I/O, graphics, etc? Every new platform requires new drivers. =3D) > Will the same drivers that work with Linux work with FreeBSD (I suspect n= ot, > but it doesn't hurt to ask.) No. Linux has a different driver model to us. We can use their drivers to obtain information about how to write a FreeBSD driver but we can't use the code directly. --=20 Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjsunnIACgkQbQx7xhW+Eg4H9ACg0q/IXq/nwzS3HoOisbo6hAc7 Z9oAoJOMDCoMBwCO54qtuqILt7eLc872 =xSNL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message