Subject: Re: YellowDog 1.2 on RS/6000 42T (microchannel bus)?
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 16:03:02 MST
Alexandre,
Microchannel based RS/6000s will not be supported in the near term. I
can't even promise they will ever be supported. Microchannel is a
proprietary bus and IBM has no interest (that I am aware of) in getting
Linux to run on these.
I'll make sure that our hardware list gets changed to reflect that
Microchannel RS/6000s are *not* supported.
Regards,
Dan
On 13 Mar 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Last time I inquired whether I could run GNU/Linux on an IBM RS/6000
> 42T workstation I got as a gift, the conclusion was that I couldn't
> because its bus was microchannel. Has the status changed with the
> release of YellowDog 1.2? If not, could someone please explicitly
> list this model in the unsupported hardware list? It seems that IBM
> has flooded Brazilian universities with this model some years ago, and
> since AIX 4.1 is so obsolete, many people seem to be interested in
> running GNU/Linux on them.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information.
>
> [please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed]
>
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Regards,
Dan
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