Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:06:01 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <3E557B79.1A72E131@freebsd.org> References: <7241722.1045757734299.JavaMail.nobody@waldorf.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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> The OS X loader mod is an interesting possibility; they already > have some sort of support for their own funky mod of UFS. (Don't > try to run OS X on UFS -- it is really flakey) I saw some work > being done over in the OpenBSD camp to support that version of > UFS and it looked to me as though the addressing was > non-standard. Maybe standard UFS support wouldn't be that hard > to add, but I'd hate to have to rely on their code to boot > FreeBSD. NetBSD now has the mods to support OSX's variant of UFS. I don't know how difficult that would be to port to FreeBSD's UFS. > Has anyone taken a look at "ofwboot" from Net/OpenBSD? (At > first glance it appears both are using the same code...) FreeBSD/ppc's loader has the same function as ofwboot, and that's where some of the code was derived from. > Also, is there any support for the airport wireless yet? Not yet, although it would be trivial to port NetBSD's if_wi_obio.c. Damn, I might even give it a try this afternoon :-) > When I was reading through support for the platform offered by the other > BSDs, I believe I saw that the modem is attached internally to > the USB bus; any chance that since 5.0 supports USB modems it > is just recognized as one of those? OpenBSD (I think it was) > could see the modem but had no driver for it. On the old iBook, it's connected directly through the macio chip. I'm not too sure about recent models. later, Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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