🚀 go-pugleaf

I'd really appreciate another subject.

st@amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) wrote:
] If you could "write drivers directly down to the metal", why doesn't
] MacLinux exist, and why does NetBSD/mac68k only support a few models of
] Macintosh? Hmmm?

The reason NetBSD/mac supports only a few models has more to do
with PMMU and memory architecture of modern systems than it does
to do with 68k mac hardware not being documented.

The vast majority of 68k mac hardware has been reverse enginnered
already by various programmers whose source is available on
archives.

It's the relative newness that prevents this same thing of being
true of the PPC macs.

Unfortunately, when/if the PPC macs get to this point as well,
they'll probably be relative uninteresting hardware for the
types of people who do ports.


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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