MOL and OSX on PPC604

[Samuel Rydh]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:42:01AM -0600, J. Blank wrote:
> Wait, wait. This isn't what I've heard.
> 
> I've heard that at least Jaguar and later (not sure about earlier
> versions, but who'd want to run them? ;) ) require a G3 because APPLE, TO
> FOIL PEOPLE LIKE US, SPRINKLED G3 OPCODES THROUGHOUT THE CODE... so that
> you WOULD need the complete G3 instruction set just to run OS X...

Not true. No special G3 opcodes exists... Well, the supervisor
instructions set differ slightly (different CPU models has different
cache configuration for instance) but MOL has to emulates those anyway
so this is not a factor.

/Samuel