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quick guide for impatient reword netboot section, also macppc can netboot macppc/hardware: mention that some older models not listed might work, but are untested mention that some iMac (Bondi Blue) and PowerMacintosh G3 (Blue and White) systems have keyboard problems mention that ttya is "modem" port, and ttyb is "printer" port macppc/install: describe the keyboard workaround for PM G3 (B&W), and that 1.4.3 works fine for it and the iMac (Bondi) macppc/prep: make the whole BootROM/Open Firmware distinction clearer describe that some models have to remove internal modem or set input/output devices to ttyb since int modem usurps ttya. macppc/whatis: mention important changes, such as ELF, binary compatability, newly supported models that don't require kernel patches, and that the install procedure described now works for all models (i.e. Open Firmware 3 machines with only one hard drive).
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.\" $NetBSD: whatis,v 1.4 2001/07/05 05:03:02 mbw Exp $
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This is the second major release of
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.Nx
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for the \*M platform, including the Apple iBook, iMac, PowerMacintosh, and
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PowerBook models, as well as clones.
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.Pp
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As is usual between releases, the \*M port has had many improvements
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made to it - too many to detail all of them here.
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.Pp
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Numerous new drivers have been added.
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See the supported hardware list for details.
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.Pp
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Some (but not all!) notable \*M-specific improvements include:
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.(bullet
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A simpler install procedure for models released after 1996, which have
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Open Firmware version 3 and only one hard drive. The procedure described
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in this document will no longer render your drive unbootable on these models.
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.It
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Migration to the ELF binary format from a.out.
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You can still use your pre-1.5 a.out applications, though.
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.It
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Support for the latest laptop models which previously required a special
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ADB keyboard patch (the iBook, iBook SE, iBook (Dual USB), PowerBook
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(FireWire), and the PowerBook G4 (Titanium)).
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.It
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Support for the latest iMac machines, the iMac (Early 2001).
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.bullet)
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.Pp
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.Nx \*V
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on \*M is, as usual, also fully backward compatible with old
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.Nx*M
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binaries, so you don't need to recompile all your local programs
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provided you set the appropriate binary compatibility options in your
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kernel configuration.
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