Subject: Re: 7200 Netbsd / Linux
To: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/15/2005 14:05:50
The onboard MACE (mc) chip should work fine with >= 3.0 beta, current  
and possibly 2.1

On Nov 15, 2005, at 1:59 PM, William Duke wrote:

> That's too bad.   I was thinking that a 7200/90 would make an  
> excellent X
> terminal once a cheap PC 100Mb ethernet card was added.
>
>
>> From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:10:56 -0500
>> To: NetBSD macppc <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
>> Subject: Re: 7200 Netbsd / Linux
>>
>>
>> The last time I tried, ofwboot.xcf choked during loading. This may be
>> fixed in current or it may have been that it only had 16MB of RAM; I
>> tossed my 7200 a few months ago though.
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:03 AM, William Duke wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering if anybody has made any progress on adding 601
>>> support to the
>>> PPC port of NetBSD?
>>>
>>> Reason I ask is simple, I want to install NetBSD on my  
>>> PM7200/90.   I
>>> installed Debian Linux on the 7200 last night, and was immediately
>>> reminded
>>> of why I like NetBSD so much better.
>>>
>>> Anyway, anybody know if there's been any progress on the 601
>>> front?   Or, is
>>> anybody even working on bringing 601 support to NetBSD?   I
>>> searched Google
>>> a couple of nights ago and found that there had been a couple of
>>> people
>>> working on adding 601 support in the past, but I can't find any
>>> recent info.
>>>
>>> Man, I'd really prefer to not have to use Linux.  But...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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