To work, a machine MUST have some variety of OpenBoot firmware!
- As such, this is still rather preliminary and should not be considered
- finished.
- The port is still not fully stable, but is now running well enough that
- is is reasonable to do system development.
- Hopefully, all stablity problem will be worked on and this will
- become a reasonably useable port.
- However, if you have PowerPC hardware we would like to know
- if it at least boots the install floppy.
-
! The following processors are supported: 603, 603e, 604, 604ev.
The port does not yet use real device drivers. It uses OpenFirmware
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To work, a machine MUST have some variety of OpenBoot firmware!
+
+ The processor support is quite stable at this point.
+ Driver support is currently somewhat limited, due to most PCI devices
+ only having been tested on little-endian machines. Additional device
+ support for Macintosh hardware systems is under development any
+ programming information for any recent Mac hardware would improve
+ this situation.
! The following processors are supported: 603, 603e, 604, 604ev, 750.
The port does not yet use real device drivers. It uses OpenFirmware
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RiscPC
Pro2000
Pro3000
!
Pro4000 (* might not work due to IRQ problem)
V-I
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RiscPC
Pro2000
Pro3000
!
Pro4000
V-I
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! Untested hardware (MAY work -- please mail with results):
!
Firepower machines
!
Motorola Net4000
!
Motorola Net6000
!
None known to work.
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! Hardware support under development:
!
Apple PowerMac systems with at least a 603 processor and OpenFirmware.
!
Only the Apple imac (333Mhz) currenly has driver support.
!
Other systems supported with hardware availability and driver information.
! more recent systems will be given priority over older/slower systems.
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PPCP class machines.
Apple PowerMac systems with a 601 processor or lack OpenFirmware
will never work.
!
Apple PowerMac systems with at least a 603 processor and OpenFirmware.
! The Apple implementation of OpenFirmware does not support loading of ELF
executables (like the boot-blocks for this port). This needs a workaround.
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PPCP class machines.
Apple PowerMac systems with a 601 processor or lack OpenFirmware
will never work.
!
The Apple implementation of OpenFirmware does not support loading of ELF
executables (like the boot-blocks for this port). This needs a workaround.
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added, vga cannot be used as console yet, but can be used as a terminal.
No X servers are supported, but the mechanism to access vga via mmap exists.
+ For 2.5 support continued at the previous level as 2.4.
+
+ For 2.6 support an offical release was not made for the powerpc port.
+ Work on the iMac had started and compiler loader issues had not been
+ resolved which prevented the system from building out of the tree.
+
+ Post 2.6, iMac support has been added, further development is underway
+ to support the imac devices better and add support for other systems.
+ Initally with the imac driver support, compatibility with older
+ systems was lost. This is primarily due to a lack of testing, these
+ systems will be supported once the system changes are backported.
+
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