On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Pre-PCI is basically "NUBUS" based even in absence of an actual NuBus > slot :-) It has to do with the internal HW architecture. The only ones > that aren't are the even older designs (the 68000 based ones). >
There is already some disagreement in the comments in the nubus-pmac code about the suitability of "PMU_NUBUS_BASED" as opposed to e.g. "PMU_WHITNEY_BASED". Point is, the PMU driver doesn't care about the expansion slots or architecture (Whitney-based PMU appears on m68k and powerpc). So NuBus vs. PCI is a red herring here. The pmu_kind relates to backlight, buttons and battery. (Leaving aside the PMU driver, if a pre-OpenFirmware Mac has a "slot zero" ROM, one can argue that it is actually a NuBus machine, regardless of any actual expansion slots.) > What's the situation with those NuBus things ? What do they use as a > bootloader ? The old Apple one or BootX ? We should merge that port of > it's maintained. > I agree that this code should not languish out-of-tree. But it would need more work before it could reasonably be submitted to reviewers. I do have some nubus-pmac hardware but I also have more mac/68k driver work to do before I can tackle another architecture. I don't know what the bootloader situation is, but it looks messy... http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/#booters Laurent, does Emile work on these machines? -- > Cheers, > Ben. >
