On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:07:06PM -0400, Joseph Sarkes wrote:
> Well, I had no good result:(

Bummer.  So have you had any luck with any version of NetBSD on your
1GHz G4?  Has anyone else?  Have you tried the latest 1.5ZC snapshot,
too?

> I downloaded everything (what a waste of time, unless it is useable with 
> a fixed kernel)

It should be usable with future kernels, but you'll probably want more
current binaries with a more current kernel.

> NetBSD 1.5.3_RC2 (INSTALL) #0 Fri Apr 26 19:53:28 PDT 2002
> 	briggs@cheetah:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/INSTALL
> 
> CPU: Version ffff8001 (Revision 201)
> total memory = 512 MB
> avail memory = 484 MB
> using 1024 buffers containing 4096 KB of memory

Hmm...  Just after this output should be
	mainbus0 (root)
	cpu0 ...

There's a fair bit of code before those lines are output, but it
should be pretty straight-forward stuff.  I suspect that there's
something that we're just not handling properly on the new systems.
I wish I had one to poke at here.

> I can run NetBSD i386 under VirtualPC with moderate useability, but it 
> is really a kludge.

Ouch.  Yeah.

-allen

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