Subject: Re: Standard G3/400 powerbook fully supported?
To: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/09/1999 14:40:48
> >> Sound and booting from PCMCIA devices?  Those are the two I think are it.
> >
> >Can you boot MacOS off PCMCIA devices? Seems like that would require a
> >lot of OpenFirmware hair...
> 
> You can do a lot more interesting things in BSD that you can't do in MacOS. :)

Indeed, but you can't boot NetBSD from either NetBSD or MacOS, you can
only do it from Open Firmware. If Open Firmware doesn't support
configuring and booting off PCMCIA, there's nothing we can do within
NetBSD to change that.

-- Dan