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RE: Does as400 use open firmware at IPL?

-----Original Message-----
From: mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Keith Carpenter
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:30 AM
To: MI Programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [MI400] Does as400 use open firmware at IPL?

>IBM used OF in their RS/6000s.  Now that IBM offers basically the same
>machine as i5, p5 and OpenPower (linux) models it's entirely possible
>they share a similar firmware (differences more for marketing/licensing
>reasons).

if the p5 uses OF the i5 must also.

>If you interested in how an OS boots, you might look at how Linux loads
>in a LPAR.  I don't know if the iSeries versions of RedHat or Suse are
>available for download, but here's an effort to run Debian in a LPAR.
>http://www.adelux.fr/site_adelux/libre/howto/iseriesen

Thanks for the link.  Yeah, if I really want to know how the PowerPC starts
up, Linux is the place to look.

-Steve

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