MOL under MacOS X - First successful run

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 09:04, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:27:49AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a filesystem bridge to run linux on
> > top of OS X
> 
> Yes... that is something to look into. The opposite (writing a
> filesystem bridge for the OSX kernel) should also be investigated.
> It would be nice to be able to install OSX directly in some
> linux directory.
> 
> > BTW. Do you plan to work on the G5 support ?
> 
> Eventually, but not in the immediate future (I probably need to get
> a G5 machine first). I'm a bit uncertain how much work is involved.
> Most thing ought to be (relatively) straightforward. I would guess
> that the main problem is the splitmode implementation which currently
> utilizes BATs.

well, I suppose that it wouldn't be worth bothering with a 32 bits
G5 implementation, so that mean MOL would have to be 64 bits clean,
work with the guest OS switching the mode between 32 and 64 bits,
(we may not need to emulate the 32 bits MMU bridge mode though),
then deal with SLB and slightly different hash table emulation...

Ben.