Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:49:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MkLinux for PowerMac available! Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960522144351.7944B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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I just discovered that Apple's Linux/Mach based free Unix for PowerMac is available (or at least an early developers release) from http://www.mklinux.apple.com/ It runs on Nubus-based PowerMacs (6100, 7100, 8100, PowerComputing). Presumably PCI will be supported in a future version. I'll try it tomorrow and give a full report. It does require repartitioning the hard drive(s) to create A/UX root and swap partitions. Also, I'll try to discover the viability of using Apple's kernel device driver source code as hardware documentation to bootstrap a Free/NetBSD port to PowerMac. The lack of public info about the Apple hardware architecture (and the huge differences between various 68K models) is the main reason why the NetBSD port runs on so few models of 68K-based Macs. Hopefully with free device driver source code supported by Apple, this will all change. ---Jake
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