603e support (IBM thinkpad)

[Andrew R. Reiter]

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.
:

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