On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Ken Key wrote:

> Results of test boot of PowerBook G4 (GigE).  Options on this
> PowerBook are 667MHz G4, 1Gig PC133 memory, 48G HD, GigE, 128-bit AirPort,
> DVD..  Using the 20011111-1.5Y snapshot, I successfully booted the
> "netbsd.GENERIC_MD.gz" kernel by putting the ofwboot.xcf and kernel
> on my 1st HFS+ partition and booting from open firmware with:

Sweet!

> cpu0 at mainbus0: 7450 (Revision 201), ID 0 (primary)
> cpu0: HID0 8450c0bc<EMCP,TBEN,NAP,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,LRSTK,FOLD,BHT>
> cpu0: unknown size backside cache

D'oh.  Well, at least it should run NetBSD, albeit not as fast as it
should.  It's probably because they're using the 7450 with on-chip 256 KB
L2 cache, instead of backside cache.  I'll bet someone knows how to fix
this.

  -- MW