Subject: Re: personal impression of issues on netbsd/macppc
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/20/2004 23:42:31
Hello,
> I think 601 support itself is done.
>
> The real problem with supporting older machines is different. It is that
> they don't have OF, and macppc currently assumes we have a working OF
> around. Thus our current code base will never work.
>
> We could, however, go to an approach where we keep an internal OF tree and
> read properties out of it. Then all we need is for the booter to pass us
> such a beast, and we're set. This behavior is what MkLinux does as I
> recall.
Hmm, as far as I know the 7500 ( and probably a few others ) has OpenFirmware and comes with a 601 - would this 'just work' or does it require additional work?
have fun
Michael