From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 4 22:01:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00846 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zaphod.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00831 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@zaphod.softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by zaphod.softweyr.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id XAA04920; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 23:00:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes) Message-ID: <19990204230058.A4902@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 23:00:58 -0700 From: & Peters To: Drew Baxter , Terry Lambert Cc: ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers References: <4.1.19990202201553.03c2ca30@genesis.ispace.com> <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com> <4.1.19990204133817.03dba040@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990204133817.03dba040@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:41:23PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:41:23PM -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > At 04:15 AM 2/4/99 , Terry Lambert wrote: > > > >It was also my understanding from looking around that the Linux portion > >of MKLinux had full source code, but that portions of the MK portion of > >MKLinux was available as binaries, only. > > I'm really not sure.. I thought MKLinux was full source, but I haven't > really looked into it.. > > >Basically, I think there is some hardware left to puzzle out that > >you could not expect to get help from Apple when doing the puzzling. > > Well the thing is, most of "Apple's" Hardware isn't made by Apple. They > integrate the machines and make the ROM, but their Video is ATI, their > Ethernet (in some cases anyway) is Dayna.. Certainly not the latter anymore. Lamentably, Dayna is now a (very small) part of Intel; that's why I no longer work there. Gag! > Sure they have some designs they've done (I.e. Geoport modem).. But I think > you'll find that you wouldn't need to look to far except for the chipset to > find out what drivers you need. > > >If I'm wrong, I'll be happy to buy an iMac for a porting project, so > >let me know... > > I'd be interested in seeing it port in SOME form, even if just to get a > 'base' going to proceed further. I'm not sure how many people are > interested in screwing with an idea like this though. As I pointed out, NetBSD 1.3.3 will reportedly netboot on the iMac, but they can't seem to get enough information about OpenBoot to boot it from the disk. > PowerPC Chips run RS/6000's for AIX. Although I doubt AIX would run on a > Mac unless it was the X86 version in a Softwindows window. :) Wanna bet? Motorola had/has it running on their StarMax series. They have a full-time engineer support Linux on their embedded and server PowerPC CPU boards now, too. Too bad we don't engender this kind of support. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message