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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!
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> 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