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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