Re: Linux/98?!?

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:57:26 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) said:
> > > That makes it less dead than MCA bus PCs. And MCA bus merging is a 2.1.x
> > > target
> >
> > I understood that was (at least in part) because of MCA busses in RS/6000
> > class machines?
>
> They may have MCA busses but thats not the reason - the MCA port has been
> round since the 1.0 era but just never merged before.

AFAIK Linux/PPC doesn't run on RS/6000s with MCA, only with PCI.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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