Re: Boot, cpu, testing

"Loic Hoguin" <essendev-extend.eu> writes:

> - I read on the mailing lists here[1][2] some
interesting things about
>   booting NetBSD directly ; but since I wasn't here at
the time I may
>   not fully understand what they're trying to
accomplish. So here's my
>   question: can NetBSD boot from an iBook G4 with OFW3
without having
>   to type boot in OFW?

Yes.  I set boot-device to 'hd:3,ofwboot.xcf', boot-file
to
'hd:5,/netbsd', and boot-command to '" screen"
output boot'.  The
first path refers to ofwboot.xcf in the root of my Mac OS
partition,
and the second to the kernel in my NetBSD root partition. 
The third
setting is needed to initialize the display.

> - Last time I installed it NetBSD reported a 600 Mhz
CPU (it is a
>   1.2 Ghz actually). I think OFW don't report the
correct values,
>   but is there a way to change the frequency after
boot?

As Michael wrote, the reported value is correct, and
changing speed is
possible on certain models.  Michael's patches didn't
persuade my
iBook G4 (theoretically 1 GHz) to change speed last time I
tried,
though...

Magnus