At 6:06 PM -0800 12/17/02, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 04:36 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>>People like Allen Briggs know loads more than I do about this, but 
>>for booting it might work to just can the appropriate Open Firmware 
>>device tree into ppcboot and hand it off to the macppc port. 
>>Probably not that simple in practice since the relevant device 
>>drivers may not *all* be in macppc and they may make OF calls 
>>during the setup > process.
>
>Thank you for the suggestion. I have been talking to Allen Briggs 
>today through email about the whole thing. He is very helpful. 
>That's a possibility but I'm sure Allen Briggs would know more about 
>it than I do. He seems fairly confident that he could get it at 
>least booting in less than a week. It wouldn't be fully polished but 
>it would be a start. I'm hoping some others are also interested in 
>working on the project. Allen has said that he would prefer if 
>somebody else jumped in rather than himself because he does not have 
>a lot of time.

I'm glad Allen is taking an interest.  He's the only remaining active 
member of the group that ported BSD to Mac 68K machines (before they 
merged with NetBSD).  I think I've exhausted what I can do for you 
since I'm not going to buy a board just yet.
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