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OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV runs on iMac, G4 Power Macintosh, G4 Cube as well
as PowerBook and iBook machines.

Machines with older firmware: 6xxx, 7xxx 8xxx, and 9xxx machines are
not supported.  PowerMac G3 Beige and B&W G3 are unknown. 

Has been tested on iMac Revs A-C as well as on iMac DV(+) machines, several
Power Macintosh G4 systems (single and dual processor), as well as the
G4 Cube. For portables, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4 and iBook have been
tested.  Note that power saving features on portables are very limited,
no power management features are available, suspend/sleep is not supported.
However battery level and status charging/AC connected/AC disconnected
is now supported via an APM emulation layer.


Supported devices {:-include-:}:

	IDE hard disk controllers. onboard controllers supported.
	SCSI host adapters:
		Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters

	AGP/SVGA/VGA Display Adapters: Primary Openfirmware display only.

	Serial ports:
		Built-in Zilog 8530-based serial ports.
		Internal modems not supported on all models.

	Ethernet adapters:
		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
			Znyx ZX34X
		Onboard Older iMac 10-100Mbs (bm) Ethernet. 
		Onboard G4/PowerBook/Newer iMac (gm) ethernet.

	Wireless Ethernet Adapters
		Aironet 802.11DS PCI
		WaveLAN IEEE 802.11DS

	Tape drives:
		SCSI Tape drives

	CD-ROM drives:
		SCSI CD-ROM drives
		SCSI CD-RW drives
		Atapi CD-ROM drives
		Atapi DVD-ROM drives
		Atapi DVD-RAM drives (read-only)
		Atapi DVD-RW drives (read-only?)
		Atapi CD-RW drives.

	Keyboard:
		ADB and USB keyboards.

	Mice:
		USB Mice.

	Sound Cards:
		AWACS.

	Miscellaneous:
		USB Hubs.
		USB printers.

The built-in firewire (IEEE1394) ports available in some machines is
not supported.