From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 4 10:45:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00751 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:45:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00746 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4027.ime.net [209.90.195.37]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id NAA82761; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:44:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990204134147.03b2f3d0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 13:42:33 -0500 To: Wes =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Peters=D5=08=40d=EB=08=22?= , Terry Lambert From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: USB drivers Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36B97373.4A00FD3C@softweyr.com> References: <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA00747 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:16 AM 2/4/99 , Wes "PetersÕ@dë" wrote: >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? Very possible. Although any PowerPC604+ machines are supposed to have open firmware. The IMAC falls into this category. As do most of the machines in the last few years from Apple. Excluding the 20th anniversary (603E) and a few other machines. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message