On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
> Nyef schrieb:
> >>Now if I could just boot NetBSD directly... ;)
> >
> >I can. Tried it on an SE/30 (Mac-II class ROMs) and an LC-II (Universal 
> >ROMs). Unfortunately, by the time I got it working I was -way- burned 
> >out on it, so I just pushed the code to my webspace, announced it here, 
> >and didn't bother turning it into anything universal or even getting it 
> >running from a hard drive. And it worked on an a.out system, and by the 
> >time I had it running everyone else had switched over to ELF.
> >
> >Also, someone else did the same for Linux using a slightly different 
> >approach. So it's definately possible, and the hard work has been done.
> >
> >If anyone wants to pick up where I left off, let me know, and I'll dig 
> >out the latest versions of everything and make sure it's on the web.
> 
> At least I'd want to look at it.  I can't make any promises, but it 
> would be nice anyway to have this sort of thing on the Web.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2003/08/23/0001.html is my 
initial success message. The links in that message should still be 
valid. Subsequent messages imply that I continued working on it 
afterwards, so I'll have a look around for a more recent version when I 
get time (hopefully in a day or so).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/emile/ is a native mac68k booter for 
Linux. Support for PPC systems appears to be going in now (presumably 
for pre-OF-3 systems such as the original NuBus-based systems and 
pre-iMac desktops and laptops). This guy got his booter working at about 
the same as mine finally worked. It might be worth working with this 
instead of what I had.

In the project news box for emile there is an item for a SWIM floppy 
driver. That news item contains a link to a kernel patch that contains a 
read-only SWIM driver. A cursory read doesn't reveal anything obviously 
wrong with it.

> My SE/30 has the original ROM, so I'd probably have a 24-bit problem 
> anyway...

I can assure you that having 24-bit ROMs is not an obstacle here.

> Philipp

--Alastair Bridgewater