Subject: Re: Is the kernel designed to return?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/14/2002 10:52:59
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:40:57AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> Non-OFW PowerMacs don't really belong in NetBSD/macppc as it stands.  Such
> machines implicitly need a way of locating attached devices which is
> fundamentally different from the enumeration system provided by OFW.
>=20
> Hence, such machines need at least a different locore.s (and machdep.c,
> etc.), if not their own port (probably preferable).

I understand all that (and I agree).

I'm sure you can see, though, how this is going to lead to
complicated conversations on port-macppc and port-<whatever> for
eternity. :^>

(While we're at it, just what *should* <whatever> be?
port-nubusppc? Ugh.)

--=20
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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