Note that the Open-Firmware frame-buffer support is broken in many 2.6
kernels (I mean on real Macs)
How so ?
Well, in Fedora Core 4 test 3 (kernels 2.6.11.* and 2.6.12-rc*):
video switching at boot from yaboot with Open Firmware to Tux with
scrolling VGA text is problematic, and switching v
> console=ttyS0 console=tty0
> Note that the Open-Firmware frame-buffer support is broken in many 2.6
> kernels (I mean on real Macs)
How so ?
> and that most distributions install CDROM
> don't have support for PC serial ports. Then, to be able to have video
> console with any 2.6 based distri
DragonflyBSD, (http://dragonflybsd.org) manages to install & run.
Startup in ready system seems to hang on;
"Configuring syscons: keymap scrnmap font8x8 blanktime.",
but gets over it without errors by pressing Ctrl+C.
System info:
dfly-20050406-pre1.2
on QEMU PC emulator version 0.6.1
on Gentoo
Hi,
I just browsed CVS repository and found following from ppc_prep.c:
/* Check LE mode */
if (val & 0x02) {
printf("Little Endian mode isn't supported (yet ?)\n");
abort();
shouldnt this be ie:
/* Check LE mode */
if (val & 0x02) {
J. Mayer wrote:
2. on debug 2. What is this unaffected IO port 838 it tries to read &
write ?
This port is not documented in the PREP specification. You should check
in the Linux kernel to see if this port seems important. Or you may take
a look to Motorola PowerStack documentation: tho
Peter,
You can use the "diff" command (I think it's available on OS X) to
create patches, and then you can post those patches here.
Please add comments wherever possible to indicate what you done
(something small and simple).
BTW: have you tried to perform any benchmarking to see if there's any
Hello to all,
esp. Pierre d'Herbemont,
I have changed cocoa.m (0.7.0) to use openGL with very fast texturing.
I removed the use of QuickDraw. The DisplayState data is now DMA'd to
the graphics card instead of copied by the CPU. This uses apple's
texture range extensions. The change means that
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