NetBSD/mac68k 1.2
NetBSD/mac68k 1.2 was the third formal release of
NetBSD/mac68k.
Scott Reynolds
was the maintainer of NetBSD/mac68k at the time of the 1.2 release
Supported Hardware
NetBSD/mac68k 1.2 runs on several of the older Macintosh computers.
A minimal system requires 4M of RAM and about 65M of disk space.
By leaving out a package or two, the system can be squeezed onto
a 40M disk. At least 8MB of RAM and 200MB of disk space are
recommended for more serious use. The following Macintosh
hardware is supported:
- CPUs:
- Mac II (with PMMU)
- Mac IIx
- Mac IIcx
- Mac IIci
- Mac SE/30
- Mac IIsi
- Mac IIvx
- Mac IIvi
- Performa 600/600CD
- LC 550, Performa 550
- MacTV
- Internal SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, disks, and CD-ROMs
- Internal sound (enough to beep on some machines, anyway)
- Most basic NuBUS video cards (there have been some problems with
some 24-bit color cards)
- Both internal serial ports
- ADB keyboards and mice
- NUBUS ethernet cards based on the National Semiconductor 8390
(Asante, Apple, and a few others; see the
ethernet status page)
- Machines with no FPU. Floating point emulation for '030-based
machines without a 68882 is now available.
If you have a device that's not listed, it might be compatible with something
else, or we might have simply forgotten it. If all else fails, maybe you could
write a driver!
Some systems will boot and are usable from an external terminal
(serial tty or SLIP):
- LC III, LC II
- Some PowerBooks (PB 145, 160, 165c, 170, 180)
- Possibly others
Please note that many of these systems will work with custom kernels.
Check out the
machine
status page for details.
Major items often asked about, but not supported in 1.2 include:
- Other ethernet interfaces. There is no driver written yet for
interface cards built on the SONIC (83932) chip.
- 68040-based Macs. Work is in progress on getting a many of the
Quadras running. This requires (at least) a new SCSI driver
and a new ethernet driver.
- Accelerator cards are not supported with cache enabled. Most 68030
accelerators run NetBSD/Mac68k with cache disabled. There may be a
version of NetBSD-current that will permit the cache to be enabled soon.
- PowerMac - That is not the Mac 68k platform. PowerPC is a
completely different architecture. Work is proceeding on that,
too, but it is not part of this port.
Don't see something you're looking for? Check to see you see if it's in
the current system or on the
TO-DO list.
Other documents of interest
For more questions, see the
FAQ, the
meta-FAQ, the
general
info document, or the
machine
status document.
If you're interested in NetBSD/mac68k you should use a
more recent version.
Up to NetBSD 1.2 formal release
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