Sebastian Lederer wrote:

> First, many thanks to Tsubai Masanari, for his great work on the macppc
> port, especially for the  iMac!

I'd like to echo this sentiment.  Thanks Tsubai!

> But, of course, there are always some questions left:
>
> - Is diskless operation possible on the iMac?

Yes.  The iMac boots from a "standard" bootp/tftp setup.  The main obstacle
is to acquire or build a kernel configured for an NFS root file system.  The
other problem that I noted was that our integrated DHCP server doesn't
respond appropriately to the BOOTP request from an iMac.  The bootpd server
operates fine.

> - Wouldn't it be useful if the macppc port used the same disklabel code as
> the mac68k port (mac68k/disksubr.c), allowing NetBSD to use the Mac's
> partition table directly?

That may be useful, but not in quite the same way the mac68k port does it
now.  I have been frustrated by the number of steps that have to be
performed in the Mac OS environment before installing, and I have several
ideas on what should be done to correct it.  If anyone starts to work on
this project, please contact me and I'll gladly share my thoughts.

--scott