Subject: Re: PCI devices under MOL
From: Roberto (rguerra@gonzaga.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 09:23:30 MST
Maybe a MacOS ROM hack would help: tricking the CPU to write to some RAM
location instead of the PCI. Linux would then grab those bytes and put
them in the PCI port.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Quentin Mason wrote:
>
> > I have an application which requires direct access to hardware in a PCI
> > slot, but under MOL the PCI bus doesn't seem to be visible.
>
> > Is there any way of releasing the PCI bus from Linux and using it from
> > MACOS?
>
> Not as far as I know... Many people hope to be able to use some
> non-linuxable hardware in MOL but unfortunately that is not quite how it
> works. All of the disks (cd,zip etc) have a linux driver in MOL and that
> is why they show up as hard disks and sometimes you get better I/O than
> regular MacOS... USB, firewire, direct hardware accelerated video are all
> things dreamed about but not yet implemented. wrt PCI I believe that
> previous discussions have suggested that it is possible, however nothing
> has come of it to my knowledge, sorry. The best answer is "sooner if you
> help write it".
>
> Q.
>
>
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