hardware revision 1.6
1NetBSD/mac68k _VER runs on several of the older Macintosh computers. 2About 4MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and the system can probably 3be squeezed onto a 40MB hard disk by leaving off an unnecessary set or two. 4To actually do much compiling or anything more interesting than booting, at 5least 8MB of RAM and more disk space is recommended. About 75MB will be 6necessary to install all of the NetBSD _VER binary system distribution 7sets (note that this does not count swap space!). An addition 25MB or so 8is needed for the binary X11 distribution sets. Much more disk space is 9required to install the source and objects as well (about another 200-300MB 10as a guess). 11 12Supported 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 26Supported 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 55If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem 56with accessing onboard video, and it may still work with a serial console. 57Some of the known ones in this category: 58 Classic-series Macs 59 PowerBook 100-series and Duo-series Macs 60 61If your 68LC040 system is not listed above, it is due to a problem with 62floating point emulation (FPE) for this type of processor. Machines in 63this 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 71What 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