I'm very curious what was changed to make the kernel work with the
new OF.  What did Apple change? and what did we have to change to
compensate?

-dgl-

At 10:15 AM -0500 7/17/01, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>At 10:09 AM -0400 7/17/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
>:)On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:04:57AM +0200, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
>:)> Sigh! These are exactly the same symptoms I had with my tibook after
>:)> this OF upgrade! The only solution for me was to let down grade the OF
>:)> by apple service back to the version it was shipped with...
>:)
>:)They'll actually still do this?
>:)
>:)Shocking user friendliness.
>
>Yes, very bizarre.
>
>:)Michael, if all you need is a test machine of some sort and you need
>:)to send your pismo PB off somewhere to get reflashed, I have a 6500
>:)I could spare for a few weeks provided you cover return shipping.
>
>Thanks for the offer, I appreciate it.  I really do want the 4.1.8 BootROM,
>though, since it prevents my machine from panic'ing a lot under MacOS X.
>
>In any case, Matt Thomas sent me a working kernel, and Tsubai-san confirmed
>that recent -current has code to work fine on a pismo with 4.1.8 BootROM.
>I haven't actually had a chance to build a -current of my own.
>
>I think Matt is looking into why the same patch doesn't work with a 1.5.1
>kernel.
>
>I'd be happy to send this kernel to any PowerBook G4 (Titanium) owner with
>the 4.1.8 BootROM wishing to try NetBSD.
>
>  -- MW