Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:14:39 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Linux/98?!? |
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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 _ _ // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </
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