sorry no i hadn't read the faq I was just writing back in the spur of the
moment.  Didn't mean to be a putz.
Robby


on 4/25/01 7:31 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter at gr@eclipsed.net wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:22:44PM -0400, Robby Taylor wrote:
>> Does this mean that one day I might be able to run NetBSD on my 6100?  That
>> might be nice.  Anyone know how far off this might be?
> 
> Did you read the FAQ entries?
> 
> We might get 601 support from the rs6000 port, but no one has even
> considered how to deal with nubus.
> 
> The mac68k port deals with it, effectively, by ignoring the problem:
> we boot out of MacOS there, so that it will initialize the hardware for
> us. (Not dissimilar to how we treat OpenFirmware in the macppc
> port, really, since we just use the devices however OF initialized
> them for us.)
> 
> There have been theories that merging what mac68k does to boot with
> 601 support from rs6000 would be a good way to get things working on
> a nubus 601 machine, but that'd effectively be another port
> somewhere between mac68k and macppc, which is just hideous
> organizationally.
> 
> Short story: nobody is actively working on this particular problem,
> and nobody has yet. If you're interested in seeing it happen,
> perhaps you would like to contribute?
> 
> ~ g r @ eclipsed.net