Subject: Re: personal impression of issues on netbsd/macppc
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/20/2004 23:42:31
Hello,

> I think 601 support itself is done.
> 
> The real problem with supporting older machines is different. It is that 
> they don't have OF, and macppc currently assumes we have a working OF 
> around. Thus our current code base will never work.
> 
> We could, however, go to an approach where we keep an internal OF tree and 
> read properties out of it. Then all we need is for the booter to pass us 
> such a beast, and we're set. This behavior is what MkLinux does as I 
> recall.

Hmm, as far as I know the 7500 ( and probably a few others ) has OpenFirmware and comes with a 601 - would this 'just work' or does it require additional work?

have fun
Michael