Subject: UniNorth Bridge chip
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@mipsys.com>
From: Jason M Varner <jv09177@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/06/2000 15:28:59
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Hum... not exactly.
>
> First PCI machines used Bandit.
>
> Beginning with the beige G3 (and wallstreet PowerBook), they used the
> Grackle PCI bridge (Motorola MPC106)
>
> Now, new G4 (Sawtooth), new iMacs, and iBook use the uni-north chip which
> works differently than the bandit.
>
> If your netbsd kernel doesn't have specific support for the new chipset
> (uni-north/keylargo) it will probably not work.

Wow... looks like my guess was right on. I was going to suggest the new PCI
architecture as the source of the problem.

Does the 1.4.2 alpha image in arch/macppc have uninorth support?

Jason