From: grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Robert Weiss) Subject: Re: MCA Support for Linux Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 20:23:26 GMT
In article <1993Feb6.184333.21864@nntpserver.chevron.com> whgi@gruc04.nor.chevron.com (William Gilmore) writes:
>I have some Micro-channel Architecture PCs upon which I would like to run
>Linux. I am new to Linux, but after reading all of the FAQs have concluded
>that MCA is not supported at this time. Can any one tell me of any attempts
>to port the kernel to MCA. If so, approximately when will it be available.
>
>Thanks in advance for you help.
Linux should be able to boot on a PS2 machine, but because the MCA
architecture and/or hard disk controler specs are licensed by IBM for $$$ and
are not available publicly, no one has been able to add the proper
code to Linux to allow it to run off a hard disk. I've heard discussions
about working on it on the MCA channel of the Linux mailing-list, but
last I heard, this was the problem that was indefinitely postponing any
adoption of PS/2 or MCA machines into the Linux kernel.
--Greg