On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Christoph Ewering wrote:

> I'm a little out of date, how far is the NetBSD support for the beast
> IIfx? 

the IIfx is partially supported, under the following conditions:

 - a custom kernel must be built with no SCSI drivers (i.e. it operates
   as a diskless system).
 - the Serial Switch control panel must be obtained from Apple and set
   to compatibility mode.
 - you must use a serial console.
 - you must _not_ accidentally hit a key on the adb keyboard or move the
   mouse while the system is up.  we don't handle some interrupts
   correctly, and this causes the system to crash.

i'm currently working on the SCSI driver in my spare time.  i don't expect
adb to work any time soon, unfortunately; it uses some strange ROM traps,
so MRG support isn't quite as trivial as it might seem at first.

--scott