MOL development

[Dan Potter]

On Oct 10, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Sven Luther wrote:

> Do you have an idea of what the problems are about this topic, i  
> have only
> sketchy notion of what was going wrong, and could never really run  
> linux on
> MOL, even in the remote 2.4 days.

IIRC the problem was that the kernel has to be modified to make it  
work. I don't know enough about MOL's internals to say why a stock  
Linux kernel can't work, but the patches on that Sourceforge site add  
hooks into interrupt processing, block I/O, and networking. Could be  
an issue like on the Dreamcast, where the native software uses the  
BIOS and the Linux kernel goes pretty much all direct. I assume OS X  
would see MOL's hardware, scratch its head, and use whatever it can  
through the emulated OpenFirmware.