Subject: Re: '040 port
To: J May Home inspections <JMHI@laraby.tiac.net>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
List: m68k
Date: 06/29/1995 18:00:25
> This directly from the mac_bsd FAQ:
Which is pitifully out of date...
> It definitely does *not* run on any 68040's. That's mainly because
> the '040's MMU is different from the '030 and '851. The NetBSD/Amiga
> group has working code for their '040's, so that's being integrated into
> our code. When will that be accomplished? When it gets done. Also,
> the SCSI chip is different on many of the '40 Macs, but that's not as
> big of a problem.
This has changed. The Amiga stuff was integrated, but I ripped it all
out to replace it with the hp300 stuff recently. The SCSI chip is the
current hangup--someone is working on that this summer. I'm planning
on attempting to put support into the kernel for a diskless boot which
will help me (and be pretty nifty-keeno)... Right now, there are a few
little nasties left over from the hp300 code integration that affect
only the 040 port, but not much--it's a lower priority than the 030
systems that already work.
-allen
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