On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:

> > I now have a more-or-less unused MacBook. I'm
> > considering spending some time trying to get Plan 9
> > working on it. Has anyone gotten beyond confirming
> > that it won't work out of the box?
>
> I have Plan 9 booting on an Intel Macbook. When I was
> first testing it out, there were problems with the
> SATA driver but Erik fixed those and it works fine
> now. The only change that you'll have to make is in
> the keyboard initialization for both the kernel and
> 9load.
>

Using boot camp I presume?  So you have a BIOS.  That or someone did EFI
support under the radar (which might still be cool even though it sucks).


>
> Add the following at the beginning of these functions:
>        /sys/src/9/pc/kbd.c:/^kbdinit
>        /sys/src/boot/pc/kbd.c:/^i8042init
>
> +        c = inb(Status);
> +        if(c & Rtimeout){
> +                print("no keyboard present\n");
> +                return;
> +        }
>
> Oh, and you're going to need to supply a plan9.ini
> with sufficient parameters since you don't have
> keyboard input until you can run usb/kb.
>
> If I get some time on Saturday, I'll post a write-
> up on how to bootstrap the system using a spare
> partition on the Mac.
>
> Also, I started an ethernet driver for the Yukon 2
> chip that's in the Macbook. I had to put it aside
> for a while but I'm slowly getting back into it.
>
> Anthony
>
>