On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:50:23AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Brian D. Horn wrote:
> > >
> > >Right, but as all of it has Apple proprietary hardware bits, 
> > >documentation is hard to arrive at, and reading the Linux code that 
> > >runs on those machines has its own hazards (namely, GPL/CDDL 
> > >incompatibilities.)
> >
> > And despite all that we have been testing on an occasional basis on a G4 
> > based tower Mac.  It "mostly"
> > behaves.  But like Tom indicated, it is not our main focus, but it could 
> > be someone else's!
> > 
> > Does anyone out there have the information necessary about the Mac hardware?
> 
> NetBSD and Linux both run on mac hardware, so it's not like this is 
> impossible. :)
> 
> That being said, I might be able to drag one of the NetBSD developers over,
> he's a useful chap. ;)

I'm lurking on the list, I've done various apple work in linux land,
mostly on the 64-bit platforms (i.e. G5). I don't have time to work on
the port but I could probably help out with specific questions.


-Olof

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