hardware revision 1.4
1NetBSD/mac68k _VER runs on several of the older Macintosh computers. 24MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and the system can probably 3be squeezed onto a 40MB hard disk by leaving off a package or two. 4To actually do much compiling or anything more interesting than 5booting, at least 8MB of RAM and more disk space is recommended. 6About 75MB will be necessary to install all of the NetBSD _VER binary 7distribution (note that this does not count swap space!). Much more 8disk space is required to install the source and objects as well (about 9another 200-300MB as a guess). 10 11Supported models: 12 Mac II, IIx, IIcx, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, IIvx, IIvi, 13 Performa 400/405/410/430, Performa 450, Performa 460/466/467, 14 Performa 520, Performa 550/560, Performa 600, 15 LC II, LC III, LC III+, LC 520, LC 550, 16 MacTV, 17 Centris 650, 18 Quadra 610, Quadra 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 700, Quadra 800, 19 Quadra/Centris 660AV, Quadra 840AV, 20 21Supported devices on all of the above systems include: 22 Onboard SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, hard drives, and CD-ROMs 23 Internal sound--enough to beep on some machines, anyway 24 Most basic NuBUS video cards (there have been some 25 problems with some 24-bit color cards) 26 Both internal serial ports 27 ADB keyboards and mice (both Apple and a number of third party 28 multi-button mice are supported) 29 Ethernet cards based on the Natl. Semiconductor 8390 and the 30 SONIC (DP83932) chips 31 (Asante, Apple, and a few others--problems still 32 with ethernet and many NuBus video cards). 33 Onboard ethernet based on the SONIC chip for Quadra-series Macs 34 35If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem 36with accessing onboard video and it may still work with a serial console. 37Some of the known ones in this category: 38 Classic-series Macs 39 PowerBook 100-series and Duo-series Macs 40 41If your 68LC040 system is not listed above, it is due to a problem with 42floating point emulation (FPE) for this type of processor. Machines in 43this category include: 44 Newer LC-series machines 45 Newer Performa-series machines 46 47What isn't supported, but often asked about: 48 Macintosh IIfx: This machine has unusual custom chips for the 49 ADB and serial interfaces which makes support for it 50 difficult. Work is in progress on this, though. 51 Quadra 900/950: These machines have I/O processor chips for their 52 ADB interfaces similar to those used in the IIfx and thus 53 face similar support problems. 54 PowerPC-based Macs. This will be separate from this port. 55 The PowerPC is a much different processor as is much of 56 the hardware inside these machines. If you are 57 interested in this, you might want to take a look at 58 http://www.mklinux.apple.com/. In addition, there is 59 also a NetBSD-powerpc port. For more information, please 60 see http://www.tools.de/~ws/NetBSD/powerpc.html. 61