Re: cpu.h and Color Classic/LC 575

On Sep 25, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Miod Vallat wrote:

>> Hmm...  I thought this list was dead and gone.  Bryan, hope you aren't
>> expecting a response from anyone else trying to run OpenBSD on old 
>> Macs
>> like a Color Classic.  This distribution has stopped supporting that
>> machine (PDS slot ethernet) and the likes of my Powerbook 180 a long
>> time ago.
>>
>> Much more support for old mac68k iron over at NetBSD.
>
> I disagree.
>
> While the main focus of OpenBSD/mac68k is on fast 68030 and 68040
> machines, there has been a lot of work over the last 12-18 months to
> bring the mac68k port back in a very good shape.

That's good to hear.  OpenBSD was always a bit smug about not including 
ethernet drivers and the like for the older, more limited hardware.  To 
be smug about one's Quadra... that must seem hilarious to anyone from 
outside the mac68k community who wonders why we are bothering with any 
of this old junk to begin with.

>
> However, PowerBooks and systems with IDE disks are not being worked on,
> mainly because of a lack of hardware rather than because of a lack of
> interest (anyone got a spare PowerBook 550c ?). This does not mean they
> don't work to a decent level.

Actually, most older PowerBooks, my 180 included, are SCSI, not IDE.  I 
am using a 1.3 GIG SCSI converted ATA drive that works just fine with 
NetBSD 1.5.3.  The biggest limitation these old 'books have, other than 
the 14MB RAM limit, is that the only way they can be connected to a 
network is through a serial port or a SCSI-ethernet adapter such as the 
Cabletron EA414 I have.  NetBSD has an se0 driver for it included in 
their generic kernel, but I have yet to figure out how to get the 
device to work.

>
> As for ``old iron'' used on a mac... this sounds like an oxymoron to
> me (-:

I was being ironic, pardon the pun.

>
> Miod