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List:       openbios
Subject:    Re: [OpenBIOS] Some SPARC32 Patches
From:       "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense () csclub ! uwaterloo ! ca>
Date:       2014-01-31 20:44:27
Message-ID: 20140131204427.GB15444 () csclub ! uwaterloo ! ca
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 08:54:55PM -0500, Programmingkid wrote:
> 
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Olivier Danet wrote:
> 
> > Hello !
> > 
> > 
> > One more thing.
> > 
> > After NetBSD and TCX acceleration, I tried NextSTEP, which needs the patches marked + above.
> > Alas, this is not enough to make it run.
> > Maybe it is because QEMU SCSI disk and ESP emulation are too fast.
> 
> Did the NeXtCube use Open Firmware? 

Not likely.  It was m68k based.  It had something called the 'NeXT ROM
Monitor'.  See http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/next68kfaq/ for example for
some info on that.

NeXTstep for the powerpc likely ran on open firmware machines, although
I don't know that for sure.

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Len Sorensen

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