Support for G4 ZIF upgrades in B+W G3 rev2

[Andrew W. Reynolds]

Tim,

It does not work with Mac OS X Beta. Newer has a comment on its web sight http://www.newertech.com that they have drivers that work with Mac OS X DP4 but they want to test them with Mac OS X Beta before releasing them. I sent them E-mail requesting updated status but I haven't heard anything back.

I hope this helps.

Drew

On Saturday, October 21, 2000, at 06:04 PM, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:

>
> At 9:45 AM -0400 10/21/00, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I want to upgrade my development box.
> >
> >Does PPC Linux work well with G4 ZIF upgrades used in B+W G3 rev 2 systems?
> >I read something about Apple firmware upgrades that prevent this
> >combination from working?
>
> Apple's later firmware version(s) for the B&W do not work with G4
> CPUs.  If you have a rev 2 system, you have the affected firmware.
> The vendors which ship ZIF upgrades for B&W computers include a
> utility to patch the firmware so that you can boot the machine with a
> G4.
>
> >Does this effect Linux on PPC?  Does it affect Mac OSX?
>
> It shouldn't affect Linux at all.  As long as the firmware
> successfully initialized the CPU, the kernel is happy.  Dunno about
> MacOS X, but my guess is that it should work too.
>
>    Tim Seufert
>
>
>
>

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