Re: NetBSD on Mac IIfx and GNU/NetBSD

On Thu, January 14, 2016 2:51 pm, David Riley wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2015, at 10:35 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> "Mac User" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Now that I have a reasonable installation of NetBSD 7.0 working on a
>>> Mac
>>> LC III, I'd like to try getting NetBSD 7.0 to work on a Mac IIfx. The
>>> IIfx I'd be using has 32 MB memory, and at 40 MHz it would be much
>>> faster than an LC III for native compiling. The NetBSD documentation
>>> says that there has been some progress getting a Mac IIfx to boot; does
>>> anyone know whether there is a working kernel available? All kernels
>>> I've compiled so far crash with an MMU error.
>>
>> The keyboard and mouse won't work on a IIfx (or Quadra 900 or 950) with
>> NetBSD 7.0, I have fixes for this in my local tree but it requires some
>> ADB drivers for other Mac models to be written before I can commit it.
>>
>> I will see if I can add something suitable to go in NetBSD 7.1 in a
>> couple
>> of weeks..
>
> I have some specs for the IIfx/900 IOP and a IIfx to test on, if you need
> it, though I'm very heavily overcommitted at the moment.  I also need some
> more RAM in the IIfx... it currently only has 8 MB, though I have the RAM
> chips, SIMM PCBs and equipment to be making 16 MB SIMMs as soon as time
> allows (128 MB in a IIfx sounds pretty juicy to me).

I have the specs for the IOP, Apple provided them to us (NetBSD).

My test kernels on ftp.netbsd.org currently also contain an experimental
framebuffer driver, I will try to produce some that just contain the IOP
fixes.

Robert Swindells