hardware revision 1.10
1 NetBSD/mac68k _VER runs on several of the older Macintosh computers. 2 About 4MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot, and the system can probably 3 be squeezed onto a 40MB hard disk by leaving off an unnecessary set or two. 4 To actually do much compiling or anything more interesting than booting, at 5 least 8MB of RAM and more disk space is recommended. About 75MB will be 6 necessary to install all of the NetBSD _VER binary system distribution 7 sets (note that this does not count swap space!). An additional 25MB or so 8 is needed for the binary X11 distribution sets. Much more disk space is 9 required to install the source and objects as well (at least another 300MB). 10 11 12 Supported models: 13 14 Mac II, IIx, IIcx, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, IIvx, IIvi, 15 Performa 400/405/410/430, Performa 450, Performa 460/466/467, 16 Performa 520, Performa 550/560, Performa 600, 17 LC II, LC III, LC III+, LC 520, LC 550, 18 MacTV, 19 Centris 650, 20 Quadra 610, Quadra 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 700, Quadra 800, 21 Quadra/Centris 660AV, Quadra 840AV 22 23 24 Supported devices on all of the above systems include: 25 26 Onboard SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, hard drives, and CD-ROMs 27 Internal sound--enough to beep on some machines, anyway 28 Most basic NuBus video cards (there have been some 29 problems with some 24-bit color cards and with most 30 QuickDraw acclerators) 31 Both internal serial ports 32 ADB keyboards and mice (both Apple and a number of third party 33 multi-button mice and trackballs are supported) 34 Ethernet cards based on the National Semiconductor 8390 and the 35 SONIC (DP83932) chips 36 (Asante, Apple, and a few others--problems still 37 with Ethernet and many NuBus video cards). 38 Onboard Ethernet based on the SONIC chip for Quadra-series Macs 39 Onboard Ethernet based on the MACE chip for the AV Quadras. 40 Comm-slot Ethernet may be working for some machines/cards. 41 42 43 If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem 44 with accessing onboard video, and it may still work with a serial console. 45 Some of the known ones in this category: 46 47 Classic-series Macs 48 PowerBook 100-series and Duo-series Macs 49 50 51 If your 68LC040 system is not listed above, it is due to a problem with 52 floating point emulation (FPE) for this type of processor. Machines in 53 this category include: 54 55 Newer LC-series machines 56 Newer Performa-series machines 57 Some PowerBook 500-series Macs 58 59 60 What isn't supported, but often asked about: 61 62 Macintosh IIfx: This machine has unusual custom chips for the 63 ADB and serial interfaces which make support for it 64 difficult. Work is in progress on this, though. 65 Quadra 900/950: These machines have I/O processor chips for their 66 ADB interfaces similar to those used in the IIfx and thus 67 face similar support problems. 68 PowerPC-based Macs: This will be a separate effort from the mac68k 69 port. The PowerPC is a much different processor as is much 70 of the hardware inside these machines. If you are 71 interested in this, you might want to take a look at 72 http://www.mklinux.apple.com/. In addition, there is 73 also a NetBSD-powerpc port. For more information, please 74 see http://www.tools.de/~ws/NetBSD/powerpc.html. 75
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