Subject: Re: mac68k Model Support Docs?
To: Bryan Vyhmeister <netbsd@bsdjournal.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/25/2006 16:30:02
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> I was also wondering if it would be worthwhile to create a page for
> NetBSD/mac68k like the following:
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html
>
> There really isn't any clear instruction on what works and what doesn't. The
> install document gives some info but more would be nice. I know the following
> documents exist but they aren't very helpful because they are very outdated:
>
> http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/machine-status/
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/curr_info.html
>
> For example, the Color Classic II is theoretically supported but I wasn't
> able to get it installed with NetBSD/mac68k 3.0.1 last night. I kept getting
> errors with the SCSI bus. It could be a bad disk but I don't think that is
> the problem. It would be great to gather reports of people running 1.6, 2.0,
> and 2.1 on a machine while 3.x isn't working or something to that effect. I
> would think that this would help developers as well as users. Any thoughts?
> Thanks for your time.
The next question would be... are you interested in doing the
initial version of this? :)
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