[wplug] PowerPC

[Brian A. Seklecki]

"ABSTRACT: PowerPC (aka PPC) is not just another arch, it's the arch Apple 
has abandoned and plans to stop supporting. Because of this, Linux may"

aCK! Hopefully not the way of the Alpha chip!

In case I don't make it on Sat., without getting too far off track on the 
Linux aspect of this, I'd just like to point out that PPC is very popular 
in embedded and OEM environments other than the old Apple iFishbowl.  It 
is unlikely that Intel/Motorola will discontinue this chip line any time 
soon.  They run fast and cool (and they're RISC!)

For example, you'll frequently find PowerPC in the Cisco product line to 
run the "supervisor" aspect of bridges/switches, like the Catalyst 
Switches and Aironet Access-Points:

cisco WS-C3750-24TS (PowerPC405) processor (revision A0) with 
120822K/10240K bytes of

cisco AIR-AP1230A-A-K9 (PowerPC405GP) processor (revision 01) with 
14838K/1536K bytes of

The entire IBM AIX R6000 series is Power BC based and NetBSD has 4 
varients of the MI "PPC" code base:

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/amigappc/

"NetBSD/amigappc is a very experimental port to the PowerPC-based Amiga 
expansion boards as manufactured by Phase 5."

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/evbppc/

"NetBSD/evbppc is intended to be a port of NetBSD to various 
PowerPC-based evaluation boards and appliances."

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mvmeppc/

"NetBSD/mvmeppc is the port of NetBSD to Motorola's PowerPC VME Single 
Board Computers (SBC). "

l8r,
 	~BAS