=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/powerpc.html,v retrieving revision 1.19 retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 --- www/powerpc.html 1998/06/19 15:07:01 1.19 +++ www/powerpc.html 1998/10/23 04:16:45 1.20 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ - + @@ -30,7 +30,12 @@

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.

@@ -39,8 +44,12 @@

The port does not yet use real device drivers. It uses OpenFirmware 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. + +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.

@@ -48,15 +57,19 @@

Untested hardware (MAY work -- please mail with results): @@ -64,7 +77,6 @@

  • Firepower machines
  • Motorola Net4000
  • Motorola Net6000 -
  • V-I @@ -94,6 +106,16 @@ 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 (no fully working device drivers). +

    +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) +

    +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.

    @@ -109,7 +131,7 @@ OpenBSD www@openbsd.org
    -$OpenBSD: powerpc.html,v 1.19 1998/06/19 15:07:01 pauls Exp $ +$OpenBSD: powerpc.html,v 1.20 1998/10/23 04:16:45 rahnds Exp $