The 7200 is a PCI based PowerMac, it is not Nubus based. Afai knew, the 
only problem was that it has a soldered on 601, rather than 603 or above...

That being said, what would be in my way?

-Matt

Jeff Laughlin wrote:

> Somebody jump in and stop me if I am way off base...
> 
> Porting to the 601 (and therefor to the nubus macs) is a non-trivial 
> task. It isn't a matter of CPU opcodes being available or not, GCC will 
> compile PPC-601 code no problem. The issue is with the architecture. The 
> nubus architecture is completely different from the PCI architecture 
> that modern macs use. So it's not just a problem with the bootloader or 
> the compiler, it's sort of a "writing a bunch of low level drivers from 
> scratch for a weird and poorly documented architecture " kind of thing. 
> A lengthy and complex undertaking.
> 
> That being said, I strongly encourage you to give it a shot! I (and a 
> lot of other people) would love to see NetBSD run on Nubus based 
> PowerMacs, and I don't mean to discourage you from trying. And hey, the 
> bigger the challenge, the bigger the payoff, right :)
> 
> I assume that some people have probably done some amount of work on it 
> before...
> 
> At 04:13 PM 3/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a Power Mac 7200/120 that I would like to get running NetBSD. 
>> Specifically, what type of changes are necessary to get it running on 
>> this machine? I'm assuming at least the bootloader, because people 
>> have not been able to get it to boot from the install floppy, but what 
>> other types of code use instructions that are not implemented in the 601?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Matthew Drobnak
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