Re: G4 support?

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:25:04PM -0700, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> I didn't even know the G4 was in production yet. Of course, the Somerset
> facility would be one of the first places to get sample (it's the PPC
> design center set up by IBM, Motorola and Apple; when I worked for Apple, I
> designed and set up Apple's chunk of the network there, though I think that
> the Apple people are long gone from there now).
> 
> If you've got some G4 systems with OpenBoot Firmware, why not try to
> netboot a netbsd kernel on one and let us know how it blows up? We can't do
> much until we have hardware. Of course, if you can shake loose a G4 system
> for a NetBSD developer to work with, that would be pretty cool too...
> 
> The other thing coming down the pipe at us with the G4, as I understood it
> from Apple at the WWDC in May is MP machines - assuming that the backside
> cache bus is still there, how does the G4 handle cache coherency?

hopefully in a way which is supporting the PowerPC architecture definition,
which means it will magically work if our code was correct from the beginning.

Regards,
        -is