On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:34:29AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:33:32PM -0600, R Seiji wrote: > > Had believed that it wasn't possible to network boot diskless 68K > > stations. > > > > Revisited the idea a few days ago and discovered that there were TWO > > products that allowed for network/diskless booting of 68K Macs. > > Nice, but unfortunately it won't help. > > The problem is that most macintosh hardware is proprietary and secret. > Until recently[1], there was no documentation at all; this implied that > all hardware needed to be reverse engineered, which is a time-consuming > process.
[snip] > [1] The NetBSD project recently received a batch of documentation from > Apple, on the condition that they would share it with other interested > parties. They have offered, but AIUI Linux/m68k developers don't have > the manpower to actually do something with that documentation. Hrmmm. I happen to have a Quadra 605 and Too Much Time on my hands. Who do I need to get in touch with? -- Ferret
