From: robin@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Rob Rainton) Subject: Re: PowerPC 601 port of linux ? Date: 3 May 1993 20:28:28 GMT
In article <1993Apr29.192221.16065@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) writes:
>In article <1993Apr29.174100.14992@cs.brown.edu>, wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
>|> The entire Linux community should be prepared for a portable kernel
>|> after 1.0 is out. I've got the feeling that, as long as Linux is
>|> portable between CPUs (not necessarily bus structures), then Linux
>|> is going to be the killer system.
>
>I seconded. How is the cost? I am more concerned with compiler.
>Does PPC 601 have the same instruction set as RS/6000? I know
>gcc supports RS/6000. But I haven't checked gas yet.
The power PC sounds as though it may be a good platform to support,
there has been much discussion about this architecture on
comp.sys.intel (even though it is not an Intel chip).
Anyone interested in this area should check out the above newsgroup.
Rob.