Subject: Re: /dev/rom?
To: rahim <rahim@auzeria.org>
From: Mark DeArman <dearman@telebyte.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/12/1997 20:19:23
If you acctuly get it to work, say get a mac too be strait to NetBSD
With NOOO MacOS will some one tell me? Please?
Dave Huang wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, rahim wrote:
> > I think it would be nice to have access to /dev/rom too. It is a pain
> > trying to read them with a eprom reader. while on the subject does anyone
> > know if apple PROM is pin compatible with a EPROM? Wouldn't be nice if
> > your apple was able to boot like a SUN or NEXT?
>
> Why would you need an eprom reader? The CPU in your Mac can read its ROM
> just fine :) If you have MacsBug, try "dp @rombase 100" Or in NetBSD, as
> others have mentioned, just mmap() /dev/mem.
>
> I think the ROMs in all of the Macs use standard pinouts; the ones in DIP
> packages should be pin compatible with an EPROM. I've never seen a NeXT
> boot, but a Sun boot is pretty boring... kinda like the NetBSD boot,
> actually ;) I prefer the standard Mac boot with the nice happy Mac :)
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