Subject: Re: Hypothetical Question...
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 16:20:07 MST
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:34:48PM -0800, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
> At 7:53 PM -0500 12/3/00, MPWD wrote:
> >In response to your hypothetical question, there is in fact a ROM image
> >for Mac OS X, but I have yet to deciever how to strip it properly so that
> >it can function as a MOL ROM. If you know anything about the nature of
> >how the strip program works, please email me, I don't know UNIX kernel
> >calls well enough to know what is going on here.
>
> Not sure but the OS X kernel is probably a Mach-O binary, which is
> something the Linux strip program has absolutely no idea how to
> handle. Besides that I doubt that it would be as simple as getting
> the kernel into a format that MOL can load. Very likely that MOL
> will need additional work to support running MacOS X.
The MacOS X boot loader (BootX) is in the coff format (thus, a loader
needs to be written). To get MacOS X running, it would also
be necessary to write a block device driver and a video driver
in MacOS X. Also, i suspect aqua won't run without hardware
3D acceleration.
/Samuel
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