Subject: Re: Mol 0.9.60 uploaded to experimental
From: Francois Prowse (fprowse@uu.net)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 00:37:25 MDT
So - any chance that this will work on APUS (ie the Amiga) distributions
then ???
If I ever get a chance I will give it a go....
Cheers
Francois
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Samuel Rydh wrote:
>
> I've uploaded experimantal 0.9.60 MOL RPMs to
>
> <ftp://ftp.nada.kth.se/home/f95-sry/Public/mac-on-linux/experimental>
>
> Some of the modifications in brief:
>
> - Recent MacOS versions are supported
> - Auto-loading of the ROM file from the System Folder
> - The mol-kmods RPM contains several multiple kernel modules,
> compiled for different kernels.
> - Recent 2.4 kernels are supported
> - ELF loader (still under development)
> - '--test' switch added to startmol
> - The problem with the missing altivec symbols should
> be history.
>
> Starting with the 0.9.60 version, MOL comes as two modules,
> mol and mol-kmods.
>
> mol-kmods contains kernel modules compiled against 11
> different kernel versions. The thought is to make sure the
> RPM is compatible with all major linux distributions
> (and as many other kernel versions as possible).
>
> I'd appreciate it if as many as possible could test the 0.9.60 RPMs.
> In particular, I want to know if the pre-compiled kernel modules
> are incompatible with a particular kernel version (MOL contains
> a compatibility database, but it might be incomplete).
>
> Some remarks:
>
> - This MOL RPM is compiled against glibc 2.2.1.
> It won't run on systems with glibc-2.1. The final
> 0.9.60 version will eventually come in a glibc-2.1
> version too.
>
> - mol-kmods contains no support for SMP kernels;
> a recompile is necessary (mol supports SMP kernels
> on non-SMP machines but performance is suffering...)
>
> - mol-kmods was compiled against kernels with
> CONFIG_ALTIVEC enabled. I *think* it should be
> compatible with 2.4 kernels without AltiVec,
> but I'm not sure. (This is one of the things
> I want to know about).
>
>
> Have fun,
>
> /Samuel
>
>
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