Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:26:26 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: grehan@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iMac Bondi 233 and 6.0 Message-ID: <20051107.002626.123446128.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <436DD693.1060902@freebsd.org> References: <436D34F4.50609@freebsd.org> <20051106.003724.97293247.imp@bsdimp.com> <436DD693.1060902@freebsd.org>
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Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> writes:
: > Well, 7.0-20051105-current.iso worked, so I'll likely try to install
: > from that... I need to tear apart the machine I got and install a
: > bigger hard disk first..
:
: Note that the bmac ethernet driver isn't supported :( I did some work
: on this a long while back (the mii interface works fine), but it's a
: complicated beast since it relies on the general-purpose DMA engine
: provided in the parent macio ASIC.
Hmmm, yummy. I think a coworker had a contract to port the OSX driver
to Linux at one point, complete with workarounds for ugly DMA bugs...
: I did try an SMC USB ethernet part but that didn't work on first try,
: and I didn't spend much time diagnosing it.
I have a few different ones. I'll try my SMC 2202USB/ETH and see if
it works.
: > : The keyboard doesn't work with the debugger that early in the boot
: > : since it's USB and hasn't been probed yet. I've thought in the past
: > : about modifying syscons so that the PROM could be used until USB is
: > : probed, but it's not pretty. However, it does allow 'boot -d' and
: > : diagnosis for these types of panics.
: >
: > Yea. That would be cool.
:
: I'll dig up some patches.
Cool.
My 7.0 install is chugging along. I've been getting 114KByte/s on the
install. I'll be waiting a while. Maybe I should upgrade the 4G
drive that's in there...
Warner
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