Subject: Re: YellowDog Linux 2.0 on RS/6000 42T (microchannel bus)?
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 11:45:23 MDT
> Is there any chance that YellowDog Linux 2.0 will run on these old
> workstations? The hardware compatibility list mentions ``Older
> PowerPCs'', but, even though the unsupported hardware list doesn't
> explicitly mention Microchannel or RS/6000 42T, it says the PowerPC
> Linux kernel requires a PCI bus-based architecture, so I suppose we're
> still out of luck. Are we?
Nope. It's not going to happen. At least by us. IBM no
longer supports us as an RS/6000 solution, so we really
have no way to add RS/6000 support anymore, let alone
on machine that don't yet have Linux ports.
--Regards, Dan Burcaw Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
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