[OpenBIOS] Some SPARC32 Patches
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Jan 31 21:44:27 CET 2014
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.
--
Len Sorensen
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