Subject: Re: NetBSD/powerpc on PowerMac (Re: NetBSD server)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Carl S Shapiro <cshapiro@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 01/29/1997 01:20:46
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>  Your impression and your thoughts are correct - just some minor nit:
> PowerMac's OpenFirmware is different from other (I dont want to name
> the others to be "standard") implementations.

The boot proms on certain UMAX ("SuperMac") PCI Macintosh clones seem
to exhibit significantly diffrent behavior then the proms on comparable
Apple-branded PCI machines.

Does anyone know of a way to get information on the firmware revisons
from within the "Finder"?


Carl