Subject: Re: amd
To: Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch@ibm.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/04/1997 15:09:03
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 17:59:29 -0400 (EDT) 
 "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@ibm.net> wrote:

 > So I've learned!  Urk.  I had it in my head that Apple were smarter than
 > that by the time the SE/30 was designed.  Presumably, later vintage M68K
 > Macs had more sophisticated hardware?

...not really :-)  Well, there was one that had DMA, I think (IIvx?),
and the Quadras have an NCR53c9x, but I don't think all of them have
DMA engines... maybe only the AV models?  Dunno.. I'm not really a Mac
expert :-)

 > Oh, yes, I'm not making that up <g>.  I'm not sure why the BSD version of
 > amd is using an oddball port for the NFS mount request - I _thought_ the
 > Linux amd was the same code (it's never caused a problem).  

...could be just differences in defaults... or, hm, doens't amd actaully
invoke the "mount_nfs" command?  Anyhow, just configure it to use a privvied
port... that is the default in more recent versions of NetBSD-current...

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