> Just to confirm the trueness of what I'm excited about:
> 
> If you have the right kernel, could you run NetBSD on a Quadra
> 605(68040, 36 Megs of RAM, FPU)? Its just the NetBSD distributed kernel
> that doesn't work on 68040's, right??? Well, if I'm excited about
> nothing, please inform me, because I'm about to redownload NetBSD and
> stop waiting for the 68040 compatible port. Thanks.

Well, sort of.  Although there are kernels that will now boot a Q605 and 
use the SCSI drive, there are still 2 problems:

1) I believe that ADB is not quite supported yet on this machine, so no 
keyboard yet
2) This machine has a 68LC040, (i.e. no FPU).  As such, it is likely to 
cause frequent seg faults and illegal instruction errors while running 
until someone manages to fix the bug in 68LC040 floating point emulation.

I hope this explains things a bit.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX