Subject: Re: NetBSD in Centris 610
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Joe Milbourn <ee1jjm@bath.ac.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/18/2003 19:36:27
Running on an LC040 is quite possible, and usable, with the patches or
tarballs from http://edoneel.chaosnet.org/Downloads.html

I have been using them on my PB520c for a few weeks, and have had no
problems.


Joe

Once apon a time, Bryan Vyhmeister said:
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 11:05 AM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:46:18AM -0800, Tom Jernigan wrote:
> >>I don't know about impossible, but after reading all the problems
> >>with non-fpu machines on 1.4 and 1.5, I put in a full 040 before I
> >>started using it in 1.5.
> >
> >There's extra-special (hardware) brokeness about the LC040. If
> >that's the processor in the Centris 610, you'll never get anywhere
> >without replacing it.
> >
> >(I'd have checked to make sure that's the processor the 610 uses,
> >but Apple seems to have stripped everything pre-G3 from
> >http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.html. Bad Apple, no
> >cookie.)
> 
> They moved it over to:
> 
> http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/index.html
> 
> There is says that the Centris 610 has a 20MHz 68LC040.
> 
> Bryan
>