A. Resources

• linuxppc.org, our home for Linux on the PowerPC.
• Linux/PPC PReP page
• Linux/PPC CHRP page
• Kernel patches, utilities and hints for IBM PPC workstations with Carolina motherboard (like the 7248) by David Monroe. (Including frame buffer support to actually get X up and working!)
• PowerPC Linux project pages at sourceforge.net
• IBM's Linux on PPC project pages
• Hollis Blanchard's page for installing Linux on the PowerSeries 850. Add this to David's and my pages, and you should be able to get LinuxPPC-2000 up on the 850 too :-)
• The Linuxppc-1999 installation instructions for PReP Simple instructions from the ftp site
• More info about Linux on PReP machines by Kazunori Aoshima
• A newbie's encounter with LinuxPPC is a document which describes a newbie user's results and experiences on installing linuxppc using own experience and this document. Thanks to Arne C. Jørgensen for this document.
• A very short view on how to set up LinuxPPC on the 7248 the quick and easy way. Also by Arne C. Jørgensen.
• The linuxppc mailing lists. Especially interesting is of course the workstation list.
• Some kernel developpment stuff
• IBM Sales Manual for the 7248-133 (Detailed description)
• Description on 7248 microcode from IBM
• Year 2000 info from IBM
• Order documentation for the 7248 from IBM
• Online books for 43P from IBM, not the 7248, unfortunately.
• PReP specification from IBM
• Cross Development for Linux/PPC from i386 by Matt Porter

• Installation instructions for Debian GNU/Linux on PReP machines. (Note: The bootdisk included in the Debian distro does not work on the 7248-133 because of a SCSI driver bug. You might use the bootdisk described in chapter 4 instead. It works.)
• Installation instructions for Yellow Dog Linux on RS/6000: Yellow Dog Linux claims to support some, but not all, 43Ps. The 7248-133 is not on the list, but some ideas from this document, including the bootdisk mentioned in chapter 4 does actually work.
• SuSE's ppc pages. SuSE will include support for PowerPC in their new version 6.4.
• NetBSD is working on a port to PReP PowerPCs. (Yes, I know. NetBSD is not a Linux flavour, but I thought I might mention it here anyway.) There is a a special page for our PReP architecture where the 7248 is mentioned explicit.