PC? -molrc.osx?

Carlos Perelló Marín mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
01 Sep 2002 18:24:05 +0200


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What's the status for OSX with MOL?

Are the binary drivers available to download or we should use BK code?

Cheers.

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:45:49PM +0200, Mats Soderstrom wrote:
> >  >> (now including OSX and PPC/Linux) atop of existing PPC hardware
> running
> >  >> the Linux kernel.
> >  >
> >  >OSX ? with MOL cvs ??? this might be the thing to install OSX and
> >  >Development OSX on separate places and run both of them ...
> >
> > What should a molrc.osx file look like?
> >=20
> > /Mats Soderstrom
> >=20
>=20
> Well, for the adventurous there is OSX support in the mol BK tree.=20
> However, a few things besides mol must be compiled:
>=20
> 	bootx-mol	(in Linux)
> 	drivers-osx	(in OS X)
> 	mac-drivers	(in MacOS/CodeWarrior).
>=20
> All the repositories above are available from http://mol.bkbits.net/.
>=20
> Note that only the video NDRV is used from the mac-drivers repository.
>=20
> At the moment, performance is not that great. I have identified
> the cause of overhead though and know how to eliminate most of it.
> Once I've done that, I'll make the OS X drivers available in
> binary form (probably on Sunday).
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> The /etc/molrc.osx will should look something like
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> 	include     ${etc}/molrc.video      # video
> 	include     ${etc}/molrc.input      # mouse & keyboard
> 	include     ${etc}/molrc.net        # networking
>=20
> 	ram_size:   256
>=20
> 	# The boot volume must be marked with -boot
> 	blkdev:     /dev/hde12 		-rw -boot
>=20
> 	# --config=3D1 gives singleuser mode, --config=3D2 gives verbose mode, =20
> 	ifeq ${config} 1 {
> 		macosx_kernel_args:     "-s"
> 	}
> 	ifeq ${config} 2 {
> 		macosx_kernel_args:     "-v"
> 	}
>=20
> 	# From mac-drivers
> 	osi_video_driver:       /BK/MacOS/mol-drivers-work/OF/osi_video.x
>=20
> 	# From bootx-mol
> 	bootx_image:            /BK/mol-work/src/booter/xbooter/bootx
>=20
> 	# From drivers-osx
> 	drivers:		/BK/osx-drivers-test/mods.mkext
>=20
> There will probably be some changes though, so it might
> be a good idea to examine the default molrc.osx file (once it
> exists) since MOL no longer overwrites existing config files
> during the 'make install' step.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> /Samuel
>=20
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> --=20
> Carlos Perell=F3 Mar=EDn
> mailto:carlos@gnome-db.org
> mailto:carlos.perello@hispalinux.es
> http://www.gnome-db.org
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> Valencia - Spain
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