Subject: Re: MacBSD for performa 630 ?
To: Roberto de Iriarte <roberto@nexus.chilenet.cl>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/08/1996 20:03:12
On Thu, 8 Feb 96 21:51 ADT 
 roberto@nexus.chilenet.cl (Roberto de Iriarte) wrote:

 > 	I know that the 630 has a 68040 cpu, and therfore not
 > 	officially supported, but we'd like to know, and help
 > 	if possible, of the progress of the 040 kernel.

Well, the 68040 bits should be in place.  I will probably print the 
copyright and try to do autoconfiguration.  If I understand it right, 
you're basically missing device drivers for the 68040-based Macs.  What 
the heck ... might as well give it a shot!  :-)

(Well, hopefully you'll be able to see the screen and/or serial console 
output when you try :-)

 > 	BTW, the Linux on Mach (which version of Mach ?) sounds
 > 	interesting as we also have a PoweMac 7100, does anybody 
 > 	have some approximate release date ...

...The MACH version is OSF MACH MK 6.1, if I understand it right.

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