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Chaos Master

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Aug 21, 2004, 1:11:10 PM8/21/04
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hello people.

Is there any Linux distro for Motorola M88K processor? It's for a Data General
Aviion (sp?) computer that is based on Motorola M88100 processor.

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J.O. Aho

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Aug 21, 2004, 1:31:53 PM8/21/04
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Chaos Master wrote:
> hello people.
>
> Is there any Linux distro for Motorola M88K processor? It's for a Data General
> Aviion (sp?) computer that is based on Motorola M88100 processor.

Don't seem to be any, you could make a cross compiler, as gcc does support the
m88100, and start to build a small m88100 environment, I guess you could get
some help of the guy who has ported quite many gnu tools for DG/UX.

http://www.wolfeden.org/~davidw/computers/aviions.html


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Chaos Master

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Aug 21, 2004, 6:46:42 PM8/21/04
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It was written by J.O. Aho[us...@example.net] in message <2opf40Fddl3gU1@uni-
berlin.de>:

I will check this (it's for a friend).

and if there is any other free OS (Linux/*BSD) to the M88K... I remember seeing
some BSD.

J.O. Aho

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Aug 21, 2004, 7:13:56 PM8/21/04
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Chaos Master wrote:

> and if there is any other free OS (Linux/*BSD) to the M88K... I remember seeing
> some BSD.

OpenBSD does support VME's M88k based machines
http://www.openbsd.org/mvme88k.html

Don't know how it's with NetBSD, don't manage to connect to their page at the
moment (www.netbsd.org).


//Aho

Ayaz Ahmed Khan

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Aug 22, 2004, 1:31:55 AM8/22/04
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"Chaos Master" typed:

> hello people.
>
> Is there any Linux distro for Motorola M88K processor? It's for a Data General
> Aviion (sp?) computer that is based on Motorola M88100 processor.

I don't know if there is any Linux distribution for m88k, but have
a look at the BSDs. NetBSD[0], if I remember correctly, is famous
for the incredible forty or more architectures it has been ported to.

Note:
[0] http://www.netbsd.org/

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Chaos Master

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Aug 22, 2004, 11:35:08 AM8/22/04
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It was written by Ayaz Ahmed Khan[resi...@myrealbox.com] in message
<2oqpeaF...@uni-berlin.de>:


> I don't know if there is any Linux distribution for m88k, but have
> a look at the BSDs. NetBSD[0], if I remember correctly, is famous
> for the incredible forty or more architectures it has been ported to.
>
> Note:
> [0] http://www.netbsd.org/

NetBSD has only for m68k which is totally different from m88k (m68k is CISC,
m88k is RISC) :(

Ayaz Ahmed Khan

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Aug 23, 2004, 2:25:37 AM8/23/04
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"Chaos Master" typed:

> Ayaz Ahmed Khan[resi...@myrealbox.com]> wrote:
>> I don't know if there is any Linux distribution for m88k, but have
>> a look at the BSDs. NetBSD[0], if I remember correctly, is famous
>> for the incredible forty or more architectures it has been ported to.
>>
>> Note:
>> [0] http://www.netbsd.org/
>
> NetBSD has only for m68k which is totally different from m88k (m68k is CISC,
> m88k is RISC) :(

Did you check Debian? Last I heard, it had been ported to a number of
architectures. And also have a look at the Linux Ports Project[0] at
linux.org.

Note:
[0] http://www.linux.org/project/ports/ (I'm not sure if this is the
correct URL.)

Chaos Master

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Aug 23, 2004, 11:34:57 PM8/23/04
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It was written by Ayaz Ahmed Khan[resi...@myrealbox.com] in message
<2otgv0F...@uni-berlin.de>:


> > NetBSD has only for m68k which is totally different from m88k (m68k is CISC,
> > m88k is RISC) :(
>
> Did you check Debian? Last I heard, it had been ported to a number of
> architectures. And also have a look at the Linux Ports Project[0] at
> linux.org.

No. Debian has only for m68k. I will check the Linux port project..

Bob Goatse

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May 6, 2005, 10:16:02 PM5/6/05
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:46:42 -0300, Chaos Master wrote:

> It was written by J.O. Aho[us...@example.net] in message <2opf40Fddl3gU1@uni-
> berlin.de>:
>
>> > Is there any Linux distro for Motorola M88K processor? It's for a Data General
>> > Aviion (sp?) computer that is based on Motorola M88100 processor.
>>
>> Don't seem to be any, you could make a cross compiler, as gcc does support the
>> m88100, and start to build a small m88100 environment, I guess you could get
>> some help of the guy who has ported quite many gnu tools for DG/UX.
>>
>> http://www.wolfeden.org/~davidw/computers/aviions.html
>
> I will check this (it's for a friend).
>
>
>
> and if there is any other free OS (Linux/*BSD) to the M88K... I remember seeing
> some BSD.
>
> []s

I don't know about Linux, or even a Free OS, but there's just got to be a
commercial BSD out there for it...

Tim Boyer

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May 7, 2005, 10:06:09 PM5/7/05
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Try posting this to comp.os.aos. It's the old Data General AOS/VS newsgroup.


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Pertti Lehtinen

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Aug 27, 2005, 1:14:50 PM8/27/05
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OpenBSD is available for some models of 88k boards.

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