Performa 5200

[Dave Weis]

> >I'm not particularily fluent in PPC ASM, so head.S makes fairly opaque
> >reading for me. I'm wondering if someone might have some pointers to where
> >this would likely be dying, so I have good a place to start?
> 
> is this a NuBus class machine or a PCI based one ? If it's a NuBus one,
> then you are out of luck, or if you have time to spend, you can begin
> porting linux/ppc to those beasts. (Basically, RAM is not contiguous and
> you cannot rely in the kernel beeing loaded at physical 0, since the
> frame buffer may be hard coded at physical 1Mb). Look at the various
> parameters BootX pass for a NuBus machine (using the latest 2.1.12 kernel
> from vger or Paul's rsync, you should have the latest bootx.h).

Depending on how in to the 68k boxes you are, the impression I got is that
the memory structure is very similar to the 68ks of the same shape/era. I
tried it on my wife's 6114CD and it hung with just the desktop background
visible. Mix and match some of the mac68k code and you should be done in
no time :-) haha

If you need any other machines to test a kernel on, let me know.

dave

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