hardware revision 1.6
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 addition 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 (about another 200-300MB 10 as a guess). 11 12 Supported models: 13 Mac II, IIx, IIcx, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, IIvx, IIvi, 14 Performa 400/405/410/430, Performa 450, Performa 460/466/467, 15 Performa 520, Performa 550/560, Performa 600, 16 LC II, LC III, LC III+, LC 520, LC 550, 17 MacTV, 18 Centris 650, 19 Quadra 610, Quadra 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 700, Quadra 800, 20 <<<<<<< 1.4 21 Quadra/Centris 660AV, Quadra 840AV, 22 ======= 23 Quadra/Centris 660AV, Quadra 840AV 24 >>>>>>> 1.5 25 26 Supported devices on all of the above systems include: 27 Onboard SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, hard drives, and CD-ROMs 28 Internal sound--enough to beep on some machines, anyway 29 <<<<<<< 1.4 30 Most basic NuBUS video cards (there have been some 31 problems with some 24-bit color cards) 32 ======= 33 Most basic NuBus video cards (there have been some 34 problems with some 24-bit color cards and with most 35 QuickDraw acclerators) 36 >>>>>>> 1.5 37 Both internal serial ports 38 ADB keyboards and mice (both Apple and a number of third party 39 <<<<<<< 1.4 40 multi-button mice are supported) 41 ======= 42 multi-button mice and trackballs are supported) 43 >>>>>>> 1.5 44 Ethernet cards based on the Natl. Semiconductor 8390 and the 45 SONIC (DP83932) chips 46 (Asante, Apple, and a few others--problems still 47 with ethernet and many NuBus video cards). 48 Onboard ethernet based on the SONIC chip for Quadra-series Macs 49 <<<<<<< 1.4 50 ======= 51 Onboard ethernet based on the MACE chip for the AV Quadras. 52 Comm-slot ethernet may be working for some machines/cards. 53 >>>>>>> 1.5 54 55 If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem 56 with accessing onboard video, and it may still work with a serial console. 57 Some of the known ones in this category: 58 Classic-series Macs 59 PowerBook 100-series and Duo-series Macs 60 61 If your 68LC040 system is not listed above, it is due to a problem with 62 floating point emulation (FPE) for this type of processor. Machines in 63 this category include: 64 Newer LC-series machines 65 Newer Performa-series machines 66 <<<<<<< 1.4 67 ======= 68 Some PowerBook 500-series Macs 69 >>>>>>> 1.5 70 71 What isn't supported, but often asked about: 72 Macintosh IIfx: This machine has unusual custom chips for the 73 ADB and serial interfaces which makes support for it 74 difficult. Work is in progress on this, though. 75 Quadra 900/950: These machines have I/O processor chips for their 76 ADB interfaces similar to those used in the IIfx and thus 77 face similar support problems. 78 PowerPC-based Macs. This will be separate from this port. 79 The PowerPC is a much different processor as is much of 80 the hardware inside these machines. If you are 81 interested in this, you might want to take a look at 82 http://www.mklinux.apple.com/. In addition, there is 83 also a NetBSD-powerpc port. For more information, please 84 see http://www.tools.de/~ws/NetBSD/powerpc.html. 85
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