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Re: why mklinux? try out nubus-pmac 2.4.0!!

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:12:00PM -0600, Takashi Oe wrote:
> > All of the above. My tentative order for looking at them is:
> >
> > 1. bring MkLinux up to 2.4 on the current mach kernel, and try to get
> > those changes pushed back as a new arch. We'll probably be using
> > uClinux as a model, since it replaces most of the same things that
> > MkLinux would need to replace. (Mark Hatle's suggestion.)
>
> Umm, if so, this should be done in the next few months. Once 2.5 opens up,
> it will be difficult to play catch up again. Also, I'd think using the
> user-mode-linux as a model might be better since uClinux is Linux-2.0 based
> much like MkLinux is as far as I know.

uClinux is up to 2.4.0.

> > 2. bring Darwin up on older machines. It could be a trick, since we
> > can't pass RAM size in.... ;-)
>
> For the time being, you can probably use MkLinux booter as is. Has Apple
> released the code for Apple's BootX? That would change things.

Yes, someone is trying to get bootx to work for linux..


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References: 
 >Re: why mklinux? try out nubus-pmac 2.4.0!! (From: "David A. Gatwood" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: why mklinux? try out nubus-pmac 2.4.0!! (From: Takashi Oe <email@hidden>)



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