Subject: Re: Darwin SWIM3 Floppy Driver v0.95
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/06/2002 01:14:09
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:22:00PM +1000, nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> [David A. Gatwood wrote: -- Ahem, Nigel, attribution. :^>]
> > But why bother writing a SWIM driver in 6502 asm when you can just
> > interface to the program that Mac OS loads into them? Seems like an awf=
ul
> > lot of unnecessary work.
> 1) If we ever get native bootloading going, the MacOS will
>    never have run, which means those 6502 will be empty

No it won't. By "Mac OS" David means "Mac ROM". It's not so much
possible to boot anything on that system without its loading.

--=20
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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