Subject: Re: NetBSD PPC
To: Nathan Raymond <nate@staff.feldberg.brandeis.edu>
From: Kevin Ogden <kkb@ddw.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/08/1998 15:45:34
At 02:29 PM 6/8/98 -0400, Nathan Raymond wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Kevin Ogden wrote:
>
>> From what people have been telling me, the PCI PowerMacs use proprietary
>> Apple FunkyOpenFirmware.
>
>Apple has documented their OpenFirmware implimentation to a certain
>extent in the following three technotes:
>
>http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html
>http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1062.html
>http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1044.html

That's pretty cool...

>> PowerMacs (and 68k's) were only designed to boot MacOS which makes booting
>> another OS a real pain.
>
>I think its more a documentation issue, since Apple supported booting A/UX
>as well as MacOS on much of its 68k hardware for years.
>

A/UX looked an awful lot lot MacOS System 6 to the ROMS when it booted.

	Kevin