Subject: Re: ibook hardware support
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: Jaka Jejcic <keks@kibla.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/12/2003 22:52:17
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:07:48AM +1300, David Friggens wrote:
> * Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com> [2003-10-08 23:58]:
> > Jaka Jejcic <keks@kibla.org> writes:
> > > I'm just about to buy a used ibook and going to make it run NetBSD, of course.
> > > How much of the ibook is still unsupported? Does anyone use a similar
> > > machine and could tell me which parts won't work?
> > > the ibook in question is november 2002 model ibook 700 with cdrom and 16 mb
> > > radeon 7500 
> > built-in audio and power management are the big missing things.
> 
> The modem doesn't work either, if that's important to you. It's a
> software modem, but there's a binary driver for Linux.


Modem would be nice but audio is a must. Power management I don't really miss,
although hybernation (is this part of the power management?) is also a
definite must.

How far am I?

Let's say audio driver can be more or less easily ported from Darwin, but
does anyone have a working hybernation on their iBook?

jj