Re: Booting on a Powerbook6,8 (was Re: Installing 8.0 on a Powerbook6,8)

Michael <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:43:45 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
Organization	The NetBSD Foundation
Message-ID	<20210214114345.340e4480@blackbush>

Hello,

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 12:56:48 -0800
Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On Feb 13, 2021, at 11:26 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > My 6,4 has exactly the same memory layout ( I sent you the ofctl -p
> > dump ) and Just Works(tm).
> > Is this with FIRMWORKSBUGS ?  
> 
> No, and I am somewhat rabidly against even calling that set of hacks
> FIRMWORKSBUGS… if for no other reason than the Mac OpenFirmware is
> NOT the FirmWorks implementation, and it’s a bad name for what it
> really means … that it’s not a real-mode OpenFirmware implementation.

I'm all for renaming it to something closer to what it really does.

have fun
Michael