Subject: Re: Help from MkLinux
To: Hubert Figuiere <Hubert.Figuiere@inforoute.cgs.fr>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/21/1996 18:39:21
> I was wondering if you couldn't get any help from this version of Linux
> (and Mach) to port MacBSD. Okay, MkLinux is designed for PowerPC, but
> perhaps PowerPC Macintosh (NuBus) and 68k Mac have common hardware... (I'm
> not an hardware expert).

There are some commonalities, but not too many.  Where there are
commonalities, their sources will definitely help.  I wish, though,
that we had access to some of the same documentation that they do.

> So, my question is : will MkLinux help the port (mainly talking about
> X11R6) or won't it ?

Won't help X11R6.  We've got that, too...  ;-)
I poked around in the kernel sources and they don't appear to support
NuBus devices, yet.  At least not on first glance.  They only support
the internal video, which is probably quite different on those machines.

Again, this is only from a cursory look at the sources.

-allen

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