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From: terry@ithaca.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: Is it only for clone BSD?
Message-ID: <1992Jul23.154622.15333@gateway.novell.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:46:22 GMT
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In article <92205.094021NXS10@psuvm.psu.edu>, NXS10@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
|> I am not aware with the hardware requirement for 386BSD.Is it only for clone BS
|> D pc(as linux is)? I have a machine model 70/386,ps/2. Monitor type 8515,S/N
|> 23-kp615.does it support microchannel architecture,or only At-bus machine?I'm c
|> urious to know wheather it will run on my machine or not.Thanks in advance.
|> Neena.

It doesn't support microchannel.  Basically, to support microchannel, go to the
directory 'usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386'.  Make a directory called 'mca'.  Copy all
the files from 'isa' to 'mca'.  Modify the 'SI386' line in "Makefile".  Rewrite
all the files in the 'mca' subdirectory as appropriate for the Microchannel bus.
Rebuild.  You're done.

This is rather complicated (the rewrite part), so nobody has really tackled it
yet... although something could be in progress and I wouldn't know about it.


					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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