Subject: Re: Nubus
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/05/2001 19:26:31
>       601 support is by far the largest road block to supporting the
> first PowerPCs. Without 601 support, there is no point to doing any other
> development. Support could be shamelessly HACKED from MkLinux or
> http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ (NuBus PPC Linux) If you or anyone are
> up to the task, the 7200 would be the best place to start since it has OFW
> and 601 and PCI instead of NuBus. It looks like there is hacked version of
> BootX, yaboot; and the MkLinux booter, that should work with NuBus non-OFW
> machines.

Someone is developping a NetBSD/rs6000 port, and this will bring 601
support into the tree. The best idea would probably to merge 601 support
between rs6000 and macppc...

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus.  
Avec Windows 3.1 ils etaient au bord du gouffre...
Avec Windows 95 ils ont fait un grand bon en avant.
p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr