Re: Linux/98?!?

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:14:39 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:57:26AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> ...
> > > 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
>
> That's correct. The reason is that PS/2 MCA compares to RS/6000 MCA
> roughly like PCI to AGP (well not quite, but you get the picture...)

This isn't entirely true. Several MicroChannel Adapters can be used on
both platforms; most networks adapters, for instance, and a few
SCSI-adapters too.

/David Weinehall
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