Messages in this thread | | | From | Rick Hohensee <> | Subject | Re: IBM & Linux | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 100 12:05:03 -0500 (EST) |
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>Adam Fritzler wrote: >> >> I'd like to see more assistance from IBM in the hardware documentation >> front. Their recent release of the Lanstreamer token ring driver is a >> good start. IBM hardware that I could use docs for: >> >> - IBM Wireless LAN entry PCMCIA cards >> - Early RS/6000 hardware, particularly MicroChannel based models >> - Various old IBM MCA cards (I can give a full list if IBM wants :) > >MicroChannel? Is that still being used or are these just old cards? >
Made, no. Used, yes. They made about 13 million MCA boxes and they hold up great. Modified, yes. People are still twiddling the processor boards and such.
It would be a great PR move for IBM to open-source Microchannel down to the VHDL. In a perfect world nothing else would be legal.
Rick Hohensee
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