On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Allen Briggs wrote:

> If loading drivers off nubus cards and utilizing the ROMs more is the
> direction that we want to take, moving I/O and nubus back to their
> normal habitats is probably necessary.  At the time I moved them down,
> I was of the opinion that we didn't want to go that route (but rather
> wanted to access the h/w directly--as impractical as that is, there are
> fewer unknowns that way...  If you're loading drivers off a card and
> running them, it's kind of a "call and pray" methodology ;-).

Yep!  :)

I've been working like heck trying to implement enough of the Mac's Slot
Manager to run my video card, and it's been an uphill battle.  But I think
it is probably necessary to continue doing this kind of thing, rather than
direct hardware access, simply due to the difficulty involved in getting
_anyone_ who makes Mac hardware to cooperate by providing specs.

Otherwise, there will be an absolute dearth of hardware support for the
Mac68k port.

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