MacOnLinux on a NON-OF machine

[Ross Vumbaca]

Hi,

Samuel Rydh wrote:

>>The AmigaOne has since changed - the firmware is now an enanced version 
>>of the open source ppcboot, and is not an "Open Firmware" firmware.

> Have you tried the mol BK tree? I recently fixed this problem
> in order to get MOL running on an IBM machines without firmware...

I was using a Debian source package from ~jensen (0.9.65), I'll try out 
the bk source..

>>My question is - is MOL reliant on this device tree for the emulated Mac? 

> No, not really. The hw device tree is essentially unused. At the moment,
> it is only used to adjust a few properties in the emulated device tree
> (the timebase frequency and the bus speed).
> 
> MacOS don't look at these properties anyway so it doesn't matter
> if they are slightly off (MacOS X does use them though). In any case,
> MOL also gets the timer calibration from the kernel through a
> separate mechanis so the correct value of these properties 
> can easily be calculated rather than copied...

>>Would I be correct in saying that MOL does not emulate OF, and in 
>>fact uses the host machines OF Tree to provide the emualated Mac with an 
>>OF Tree? (Or am I wrong?).

> No, MOL uses its own OF trees (have a look in mollib/oftrees).

Thanks for the info!

Regards,

Ross..