Subject: a bunch of macppc stuff
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/19/1999 22:31:57
1) I noticed today that I still have the "DELAY(1000) during
ahc_reset" patch in my kernel, and that I still get a trap 200 if I
remove it. I thought that was supposed to have been fixed some time
ago?
2) After taking the Blue G3 firmware update on asu.info.apple.com, I
can boot off my SCSI drive and have it work. However, the IDE drive
still fails if I boot off that, and the bmac ethernet still fails
if I don't boot off it. (qv
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/1999/05/06/0006.html)
3) If I plug my USB keyboard into my i386 notebook and plug a mouse
into the keyboard, they both get probed correctly, rather than
giving a uhub error and not finding the mouse, as happens on the
macppc. More Open Firmware probing lossage?
4) I think ofwboot.elf should be installed in /usr/mdec with ofwboot,
and if no one objects, I'll do that.
5) AFAICT, the 1.4 CD is not bootable under port-macppc, although if
you can boot ofwboot from somewhere, you can then tell ofwboot to
open "cd:0,/macppc/binary/kernel/netbsd-g.gz". ("netbsd-g.gz" is
the 8.3 filename equivalent of "netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz".)
Perhaps on the 1.5 CD (assuming there will be such a thing), we can
install a hacked ofwboot as /macppcboot or something, with the path
to the macppc install kernel hard-coded into it so that people
could just "boot cd:0,macppcboot". Of course, users would still
have to deal with getting into Open Firmware. It would be neat to
make the CD actually bootable without having to enter Open
Firmware, but that might require having an HFS partition, which
might not be possible. Anyone have any relevant clues?
It might also be useful to get BootVariables working on newer
machines if there's anyone out there with the relevant MacOS
programming clue. (I don't remember where the source comes from,
but it's out there on the net somewhere.)
-- Dan