Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 13:42:33 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Wes =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Peters=D5=08=40d=EB=08=22?= <wes@softweyr.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <4.1.19990204134147.03b2f3d0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <36B97373.4A00FD3C@softweyr.com> References: <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com>
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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
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