Subject: Re: NetBSD-Mach?
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/10/1996 01:00:12
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:58:12 -0600 (CST) 
 "The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood]" <davagatw@Mars.utm.edU> wrote:

 > Speaking of the powerpc port... is that... mature yet?  Does it run on
 > 7600's?  If so, I may not bother with MkLinux (I've always found the
 > NetBSD look-and-feel to be more pleasant somehow).

NetBSD/powerpc runs on any 603 or 604 using OpenFirmware, and ELF boot
code.  PCI Powermacs are OFW with XCOFF (or XCOFF-like) boot code.  It
should be easy to make NetBSD/powerpc go on those boxes; note, using
OFW for i/o, but once you've gotten the shell, the rest is easy, right? :-)

Making it go on non-OFW will be a little more work.  But, the hard parts
are done already, really; trap handling, pmap, various bits in locore.

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