Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:10:27 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iMac Bondi 233 and 6.0 Message-ID: <436DD693.1060902@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051106.003724.97293247.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20051105.151124.27231338.imp@bsdimp.com> <436D34F4.50609@freebsd.org> <20051106.003724.97293247.imp@bsdimp.com>
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> 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. 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. > : 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. later, Peter.
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