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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 01:50:42 +0100
From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>, Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de,
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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.


/David
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