I've recently acquired a G4 and want to try installing NetBSD
on it. I've used the mac68k port quite a bit, and i386 a
little, but this will be my first time with macppc. Are the
installation documents up-to-date, or is there some other
wisdom I should be aware of?
You may find my notes from installing on a G4 Mac Mini and the
subsequent follow-ups useful, they're at
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2009/03/02/msg000617.html
If I recall correctly, the final release of the 5.0 macppc ISO
image is still not bootable, so to get to 5.0, you still need to
use the 4.0 image. However, I think the radeonfb problem
described at the end of the above message was solved before the
final release of 5.0 (the above was done with a release candidate).
I recently became aware of libfreevec, when I was looking into
upgrading my Linux installation on my other PPC box. Is this
of any use with NetBSD?
Sorry, I'm not even aware of what problem that would solve... I
certainly didn't have to use it to get my installation to go.