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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.


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Drew "Droobie" Baxter
Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA
http://www.droo.orland.me.us

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