Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:12:34 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the abi & hardware support Message-ID: <20010108191234.A88168@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <200101082315.f08NFh316673@salzburg-online.at>; from julian.mayer@sbg.at on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:15:37AM %2B0100 References: <200101082315.f08NFh316673@salzburg-online.at>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:15:37AM +0100, Julian Mayer scribbled:
| > The biggest difference between the 2 is that in NewWorld the low level "MacOS
| > ROM" (which had been in hardware since the original Macintosh) has been moved
| > to a file in the System Folder of MacOS <10. I'm sure the reason this was done
| > was to comply with MacOS X, which would make no use of it. Hence OSX/Darwin's
| > requirements of a "G3" or better.
|
| Actually, compatible systems for Darwin include:
* Power Macintosh 7300, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500, 9600
* Power Macintosh G3
* PowerBook G3 (Wall Street)
* Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White)
* Power Macintosh G4
* PowerBook G3 (bronze keyboard)
* iBook
* iMac
|
| The MacOSX/Darwin Bootloader has been pushed to the CVS repository recently and supports some Old and all New World Machines (mainly all 601/603 machines are unsupported).
| "It understands loading kernels from HFS+, UFS, TFTP and even EXT2. It can load kernels in Mach-O and ELF format."
All of the people interested and contributing know about
MkLinux / Darwin / Linux/PPC / NetBSD. I think that we will
support whatever is at hand with the developers. There is no
need for constant bickering over what should be supported.
(Hint hint, bikeshed stops here. :-) )
For me, personally, I would like to support at least the G3/G4 and
the _newer_ embedded platforms, especially PPC8420.
This means that your junk from the garage would not be
(at least speaking for myself) a great priority.
We have enough work as is, and more outcry for more support won't change
the fact that so few people are contributing. Besides,
we are so far from PCI discussions....Gotta be able to boot
to be able to talk PCI....
Michael
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