Subject: Re: Is the kernel designed to return?
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/14/2002 10:40:57
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

: We, unfortunately, want to support all versions of OF (and some macs
: without OF, which is why I feel a little edgy about all this
: OF-specific stuff going in machine-dependent code... it makes it
: harder and harder to glom non-OF macs into the same port).

Non-OFW PowerMacs don't really belong in NetBSD/macppc as it stands.  Such
machines implicitly need a way of locating attached devices which is
fundamentally different from the enumeration system provided by OFW.

Hence, such machines need at least a different locore.s (and machdep.c,
etc.), if not their own port (probably preferable).

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