-Currently only New World machines are supported.
-To improve the list below, please mail your dmesg after
-installation to dmesg@openbsd.org,
-as detailed in the FAQ.
-
-
-Support for older PREP style machines has been removed; lack of
-availability of the hardware and relatively slow speed compared to more
-recent machines has contributed to this decision.
-
-Apple PowerMac systems with a 601 processor or lack OpenFirmware
-will likely never be supported.
-
-At the current time, older OpenFirmware machines are not supported.
-This is mostly due to lack of developer resources to work on the support
-in addition to limited availability of hardware.
-
On the device side, the following are recognized, but not supported:
-
-
Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 FireWire
-
-
-
Shared HFS disks:
-It is possible to share a disk between MacOS (OS X?) and OpenBSD.
-MacOS must be installed first, and an Unused partition or other free
-partition can then be used to install OpenBSD.
-If a shared disk is to be used and be bootable, the bootloader "ofwboot"
-must be copied onto the first HFS partition.
-It is unknown if Openfirmware can load the OpenBSD bootloader from the
-MacOS X FFS partition.
-See INSTALL.powerpc for more details on how to install a shared disk.
-
-
Root Drive:
-
-With multiple drives installed in the system, only certain drives can
-be configured as an OpenBSD root drive. Any other configurations than
-those below will not be able to properly detect which drive is the root
-drive, and so any attempt with either prompt for a root drive, or fail.
-
-
-
ultra0 is always fine to use as an root drive.
-
ultra1 is fine to use as a root disk (as long as ultra0
-is a hard drive, not ATAPI).
-
If no hard drive is located at ultra1, it is possible to use a
-hard drive configured as ide1 (zip bay) as root drive.
-
It is not possible to use ide0 (CD-ROM) as a root drive unless
-no drives are connected to the Ultra IDE bus.
-
-
-
X Resolution:
-
-The current X server has no mechanism to change the resolution
-of the display. To change the resolution, it is necessary to boot MacOS
-and change to the desired resolution under MacOS. It will save that
-resolution and OpenFirmware will boot in that resolution until connected
-to a different monitor. The X server will run in whatever resolution
-OpenFirmware boots in.
-
-
-
If you are looking for to test new pre-release features, you can
-try one of the snapshots.
-For the powerpc architecture, snapshots are made available from time to time.
-
-
History:
-
-The powerpc port was first imported into OpenBSD at the end of 1996.
-Portions of the kernel came from the NetBSD/macppc port, and the
-userland and build pieces came from
-Dale Rahn.
-
-
-Dale added ELF binary support, and then work with Per Fogelstrom
-continued on general driver support for the next few releases.
-Support was added for OpenFirmware, VI Power4e boards, MCG Powerstack
-machines, DEC 21040, VGA terminal support, and so on.
-
-
-In 1998, the focus shifted towards the Apple machines, and Dale Rahn
-started work to make the range of iMacs and PowerMacs work with this port.
-Due to this, official powerpc releases were not made for the 2.6 and 2.7
-releases as work continued. A number of compiler loader issues were resolved,
-iMac driver support was added, and compatibility with older systems
-was withdrawn to fully concentrate on the Apple machines.
-
-
-OpenBSD/powerpc 2.8 supported Apple hardware.
-
-
-For 2.9, powerpc has moved to UVM, this change has fixed the
-corrupted shared library "pmap" bug that was rather pervasive for 2.8.
-
-
-
-
Known Problems
-The adb keyboard driver, on the iBook and Titanium Powerbook G4,
-has problems such that some keystrokes can cause crashes. This
-problem is mostly constrained to multiple keypresses involving the
-Fn key. Also note that <CTRL><CMD><POWER> will
-reset the machine.
-
-USB Hot-Plug detection problems exist on many of the newer systems.
-This problem only exists with the root hub on systems which have only
-one port per root hub, G4 tower systems, PowerBook G4, newer iMacs.
-These systems configure with both ohci0 and ohci1.
-
-Contact
-Theo de Raadt or
-Dale Rahn
-if you are interested in working with other people on this, or need more
-information.
+The OpenBSD/powerpc port has been renamed to
+OpenBSD/macppc for OpenBSD 3.0.
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-www@openbsd.org
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