Silly answer: Yes, but you first need to get Bochs running on the installed AIX v3.
Serious answer: IBM has NEVER been very open about the programming specs for Micro Channel. Some work was done to figure out the x86 flavor of Micro Channel but nothing has really been done with RS/6000 flavor of Micro Channel. Even if IBM did decide as part of their Linux kick to actually release the programming specs for the RS/6000 flavor of Micro Channel bus, no kernel developer would want to bother with it at this point. Keep in mind, the 7012-350 was shipping between Feburary 1992 to August 1993 so you probably got a piece of hardware that is close to a decade old. I would argue that the electricity to run such a machine has a higher cost than the worth of the machine itself. But the bottom line is there is not and never will be a flavor of Red Hat for the RS/6000 7012-350. So, I'm afraid you stuck with something that is "true blue." :p As an additional note, the IBM pSeries is still a pain to try to use Linux with. Despite the advancements in standards such a CHRP compliance and everything, there is still problems with a large amount of pSeries hardware still sitting on the unsupported list. For example, despite the fact you can get a Linux install CD to start-up on a F50, if you have SSA drives instead of SCSI then your out of luck for actually getting it installed. It seems like the IBM Linux kick only applies to xSeries and zSeries machines. The AIX department at IBM seems to still be influcing politics to keep Linux off "their" hardware. To make matters worse is the IBM claim that v5 has a Linux personality despite lacking any /dev/random, PAM support, etc. that you would expect when programming on a true GNU/Linux distribution. On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, cj wrote: > G'day All > Does any know if there is a redaht flavour for the IBM risc 6000/350's > or is there any flavour of linux which can be installed on these machines > > > Thanks > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
