MOL and OSX on PPC604

[Brian Ruth]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Natalia Portillo wrote:

> Officially is ilegal to run any MacOS on non-Apple hardware.

Well, it's against the EULA, at any rate. But I do rather regard this as an
interesting experiment, rather than as a permanent usage! I certainly don't
think I'm doing Apple out of the sale of a computer...

Presumably the EULA has changed? Not so long ago, there were all sorts of
Mac clones on the market, which were specifically designed to run the MacOS.

Anyway...

> Also, the OS X 10.2 kernel requires G3 (I dont really know if MOL has
> any workaround, but almost sure that not).

That's what I was wondering. MOL appears to present a G3-type processor to the
MacOS, at least according to the Apple System Profiler.

> And finally, why you have altivec compiled in the kernel if your CPU
> doesn't support altivec?

The CPU doesn't support it, but MOL seems to notice whether it's there or not
- the resulting MOL kernel modules differ depending upon whether AltiVec
support is present in the kernel or not. I haven't yet got around to looking
at the kernel sources to see exactly what the AltiVec stuff does, though...

> P.S.: That "corrupted" screen is because it failed, boot it in verbose
> mode to have the error message.

Ah - I didn't think of that! Might be illuminating, I guess...

Brian.