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Re: status?



On Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:38:00 -0700 (PDT) 
 bigj <bigj%scw.ucsd.edu@localhost> wrote:

 > Has anyone has any idea at about whta stage is the netbsd-powerpc port?
 > Is it running on pci macs?  how about clones?drivers etc...?  

It should run on most machines with open firmware.  This includes
the new PCI Macs.  however, the Mac open firmware implementation is...
less than optimal, and the last time we tried, we couldn't get the firmware
to load the kernel properly..

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