Subject: Actual 68LC040 support status?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/10/1999 23:28:11
I see on http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/index.html that
it says "NEW!" for the Performa 636, and that:

	"Systems marked NEW! are only supported in NetBSD-current. Other
	systems are supported in NetBSD 1.3.3. Systems marked with a * are
	based on the 68LC040, and FPU functions are not yet fully supported
	on these machines."

Question: what does "supported in NetBSD-current" really mean?  I
followed the link (http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/LC040-and-BSD.html)
that describes the FPU problems on 68LC040 chips (which is what the
Performa 636 has), but that document was last updated April 7, 1997.

I've tried 1.3.3 on a Quadra 610 and seen the crash-and-burn behavior
described in the LC040-and-BSD document.  Does -current do better,
and will it do better on a Performa 636?

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