Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 01:50:42 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Linux and RS/6000 250 |
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:40:49AM +0000, Joel Becker wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:14:33AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > > MCA is a different story, there is no support for MCA in PPC/Linux. > > Interesting. x86 has supported it for a while? Was MCA totally > ripped out, or is it merely a case of no one having the hardware to get > it working?
MCA still works just fine on x86 (at least my PCServer 500, with a P90 and 8 MCA-slots runs just fine as a nice "little" firewall), but afaict knowing how to access the MCA-bus on a PS/2 and how to access it on an RS/6000 is two completely different things.
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