Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 03:16:19 -0700 From: Wes =?iso-8859-1?Q?Peters=D5?==?iso-8859-1?Q?=40d=EB?= <wes@softweyr.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <36B97373.4A00FD3C@softweyr.com> References: <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com>
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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
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