From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 4 02:16:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA20343 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA20335 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA10086; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 03:16:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36B97373.4A00FD3C@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 03:16:19 -0700 From: Wes =?iso-8859-1?Q?Peters=D5?==?iso-8859-1?Q?=40d=EB?= Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers References: <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > MKLinux, and anything these that requires Open Firmware, makes direct calls > > to the devices individually if I recall. > > It was also my understanding from looking around that the Linux portion > of MKLinux had full source code, but that portions of the MK portion of > MKLinux was available as binaries, only. > > Basically, I think there is some hardware left to puzzle out that > you could not expect to get help from Apple when doing the puzzling. > > If I'm wrong, I'll be happy to buy an iMac for a porting project, so > let me know... Apparently NetBSD has a port that will netboot in the iMac. Perhaps some of the missing (notso) open firmware is why they can only netboot the stupid thing? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message