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 As such, this is still rather preliminary and should not be considered  As such, this is still rather preliminary and should not be considered
 finished.  However, if you have PowerPC hardware we would like to know  finished.
   The port is still not fully stable, but is now running well enough that
   is is reasonable to do system development.
   Hopefully, all stablity problem will be worked on and this will
   become a reasonably useable port.
   However, if you have PowerPC hardware we would like to know
 if it at least boots the install floppy.  if it at least boots the install floppy.
   
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 The port does not yet use real device drivers. It uses OpenFirmware  The port does not yet use real device drivers. It uses OpenFirmware
 for all device driver needs: console, disk, ethernet. It can be  for all device driver needs: console, disk, ethernet. It can be
 installed from floppy and network or cdrom.  Netboot and netroot  installed from netboot, floppy and network or cdrom.  Netroot
 support exists, but is untested.  support exists, but is untested.
   
   The port has two versions of the kernel, one which only uses openfirmware
   for all devices, and a version that has been coded to support some MCG
   PowerStack and VI series machines.
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 <ul>  <ul>
 <li> Motorola machines  <li> Motorola machines
 with OpenFirmware (PPC1bug firmware is known not to work):  with OpenFirmware (PPC1bug firmware is known not to work):
   (Machines with 603* processors and some version of Motorola openfirmware are known to not work)
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li>Series E  <li>Series E
 <li>RiscPC  <li>RiscPC
 <li>Pro2000  <li>Pro2000
 <li>Pro3000  <li>Pro3000
 <li>Pro4000  <li>Pro4000 (* might not work due to IRQ problem)
 <li>Pro6000  
 </ul>  </ul>
   <li> V-I
   <ul>
   <li>Power4e boards.
 </ul>  </ul>
   </ul>
   
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 <strong>Untested hardware (MAY work -- please mail with results):</strong>  <strong>Untested hardware (MAY work -- please mail with results):</strong>
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 <li> Firepower machines  <li> Firepower machines
 <li> Motorola Net4000  <li> Motorola Net4000
 <li> Motorola Net6000  <li> Motorola Net6000
 <li> V-I  
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 <li> None known to work.  <li> None known to work.
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 The conversion to the Wolfgang port was done because it was running  The conversion to the Wolfgang port was done because it was running
 multiuser and the other port was still single user out of memory ramdisk  multiuser and the other port was still single user out of memory ramdisk
 (no fully working device drivers).  (no fully working device drivers).
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   After that work was done Per Fogelstrom added support for the VI Power4e
   vme board, removing openfirmware device support in the processes. (2.3 release)
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   For the 2.4 release, support for the openfirmware devices were added back
   in a compatible fashion such that mixed ofw drivers and hardware drivers
   could be supported. After that was finished, the power4e support was adapted
   to work on the MCG PowerStack machines. Dec 21040, and some vga support was
   added, vga cannot be used as console yet, but can be used as a terminal.
   No X servers are supported, but the mechanism to access vga via mmap exists.
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