[K42-discussion] Running K42 on Power Mac G5 Quad

[Paul H. Hargrove]

I have two dual-processor Power Mac G5 towers.

These  do not have a built-in serial port and at the time we got them,
geethree did not sell a version of the Stealth serial port for the G5. 
They do now, and I have two of them, though I've not yet had the chance
to actually boot k42 yet to verify they do the job.  If the Power Mac G5
Quad uses the same built-in modem part, then it will have the same
physical/electrical connector for the Stealth port.

No clue on PCI Express.

-Paul

David Tam wrote:
>Here's another "does K42 run on this machine?" question =).
>
>Does anyone know if K42 is currently capable of running on the
>new Apple Power Mac G5 Quad? (Michal? Andrew? Paul Hargove?)
>
>The UofT K42 group is thinking of purchasing one of these machines
>to expand our pool of victims and enable basic CMP research.
>
>Issues:
>1. The biggest wrinkle seems to be that it uses PCI Express instead of the
>   previous generation PCI.
>2. I think that means we can't plug in the G5 Stealth serial port card
>   (www.geethree.com), as mentioned in previous postings, leading to big
>   headaches in booting K42.
>
>Does anyone have advice/insight/warnings for us?
>Thanks.
>
>  


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