FreeBSD ppc livecd? disk 1?

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Ben,

> I had to reboot my iBook G4 today, so I thought I'd try booting FreeBSD on it
> and see how well it worked; I also wanted to see if I could find out
> any information
> about the sound card in it, as there was a request on this list several months
> ago for that information that I believe is yet unanswered.

  I believe the iBook has a "snapper" audio subsystem, which is a Texas 
Instruments TAS3004 "Digital Audio Processor with Codec", with an i2s 
bus for the data path.

  See the NetBSD driver at src/sys/arch/macppc/dev/snapper.c

later,

Peter.