Re: I think I want to help

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Mike Small <smallm@panix.com> writes:

>> Peter uses OSF Mach.  I think the easiest thing to do is adding the
>> GNU Mach linux gluecode support.
>
> Is this the code in linux/dev/glue in gnumach-1-branch?  So you mean
> taking that code and using it with OSF Mach?

Exactly.

>> I wonder how easy it will be to add support for Open Firmware
>> devices.  Using Open Firmware it is really easy to access a disk and
>> the console, but I don't know if that works in a kernel.  Perhaps we
>> can Open Firmware until it can be replaced with real drivers.
>> 
>> Soon I will try to make Mach work on my mac using open firmware...
>
> It will be quite a while before I'm capable of helping directly with
> something like this, but if you want me to test something let me know.  
> I have an old world (Performa 6400) and a new world (G4 Digital Audio) 
> machine to work with.

That is nice.  At the moment I am working on the PPC (Mac+open
firmware, new world only) port of GRUB 2.  If you could test that, it
would be really nice.

I will let you know if there is some progress with what I want to
try.  But no promises about results...

--
Marco