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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To: Martin Minkus <diskiller@diskiller.net>
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Subject: OpenBoot (was Re: Anyone out there ?)
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On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:16:58PM +1030, Martin Minkus wrote:
> > > > b) A few weeks ago someone posted the OpenBoot specification,
> > > > which we'll need to write a boot loader and to understand what
> > > > the NetBSDers are doing. This is very useful, as the original
> > > > document from http://www.ieee.org costs about US$ 160 - one
> > > > reason I didn't start on the project when I did have the time

Note that someone is already working on FreeBSD OpenBoot support for both
Mac PowerPC and Sun.  I expect the bits to hit the FreeBSD source tree by
Friday.


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