NetBSD/macppc Model Support

NetBSD/macppc and Model relations

Make	Model	Logic Board	s u p p o r t e d	u n s u p p o r t e d	u n k n o w n	Reason/ Remarks
Apple PowerBook
	PB 1400,2300,5300					No PCI bus
	PB 2400
	PB 3400
	PB G3	Mainstreet Wallstreet
	PB G3 (Bronze)	Lombard				since 1.4.1
Apple
	6100,7100,8100	ColdFusion				Nubus
	52xx,53xx,62xx,63xx	Codyceps				No PCI bus, See below for 6360,6300/160
	9500	Tsunami				kbd/screen may not be used, use ttya (?) Need to disconnect the internal cdrom drive the netbsd disk has to have SCSI ID 0 - otherwise you can't specify it as a boot device
	9500/120,133					120 and 133 are only supported with -current
	9600(ATI)
	7200	Catalyst				PPC601
	7500	TNT				CPU to be replaced, output-device /chaos/control
	7600					output-device /chaos/control
	8500,8600	Nitro
	5400,6400	Alchemy
	(Performa)6360
	6300/160
	7300	Inertia				output-device /chaos/control
	8600	Kansas
	9600(Twin Turbo)
	4400	Tanzania				See Motorola and clones
	5500,6500	Gazelle
	20th Anniversary					Display won't sync ?
	G3 (ATI RageII)	Gossamer
	G3 (Rage Pro)
	B&W G3	Yosemite				netboot or kernel on HFS adaptec 2930 SCSI card only works with -current
	G4/350(PCI)
	G4/350,400,450(AGP)	Sawtooth				New Chipset (Uni-North/keylargo)
	iMac	Columbus				netboot or kernel on HFS
	iMac/DV					New Chipset
	iBook					New Chipset
Motorola and clones	3000,4000	Tanzania				problem on wdc1 if kernel is on IDE drive
	5000,5500	Tanzania II
	5000,5500(ATI)
	5000,5500(Twin Turbo)
Power Computing
	Powerbase
	Powercenter Pro					fast-and-narrow card is to be unhooked
	Powercenter					150 is reported to work.
	Powercurve
	Powertower
	Powertower Pro
	Powerwave					604/120 is reported to work.
UMAX
	Apus 2000
	C500
	C600
	J700
	S900
APS Tech	M*Power 604e/200	Tanzania

References

setting console devices (by model)

http://www.linuxppc.org/userguide/output_dev.html

FAQ for macppc

http://www.jp.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html

installation

http://www.ki.nu/software/NetBSD/macppc/sysinst/000-README.shtml

News archive

http://www.macinfo.de/archiv/archiv.html

Apple Insider

http://www.appleinsider.com/codenames.shtml

NetBSD/macppc port page

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