From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:31:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7154.1203888660@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4419ADCC-B808-45AE-8AC3-69C06C98779A@orthanc.ca>
> There is a lot of PPC-based Apple gear coming on the used equipment
> market. Considering the tight control Apple placed on the hardware,
> porting the MD kernel bits has many fewer moving targets.
The bad news is that there is still a *lot* of Apple-specific hardware
which would need to be dealt with. The PPC Macs used fairly common
graphics hardware, but the same cannot be said of disk controllers,
interrupt controllers, etc.
The reading-lamp style iMac, for example, would require support for
a "Uninorth" memory controller and PCI bridge, a "Pangea" I/O hub, a
"Keylargo" ATA controller, and so on. Suspend/resume is vastly
different from the PC world (for better or worse).
Dave Eckhardt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 2:19 [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 2:58 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 4:22 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 4:29 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 5:31 ` ron minnich
2008-02-24 5:41 ` lucio
2008-02-24 6:05 ` [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24 6:16 ` lucio
2008-02-24 6:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24 6:54 ` lucio
2008-02-24 12:52 ` david jeannot
2008-02-24 16:48 ` lucio
2008-02-24 16:56 ` lucio
2008-02-24 21:31 ` Dave Eckhardt [this message]
2008-02-24 15:09 ` [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 21:36 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 21:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 23:03 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 18:46 [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! john
2008-04-23 9:08 ` eekee57
2008-04-23 14:22 ` John Waters
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