Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

[Segher Boessenkool <segher@koffie.nl>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> What we would need now is for somebody to port uBoot's emulator to some
> userland app in Linux, and actually try to see if we can get an x86
> typical Radeon card to boot in a Mac or not...

While that might be a reasonable short-time plan, what
we *really* need is for graphics card manufacturers to
just include OF drivers on each and every card manufactured,
and recognize x86 as the oddball it is, not treat cards
with a proper firmware as special expensive "Mac cards".

I'm a bit hazy on how to get them to do that, though --
the only way might be to make the OF-booting market so
big that it'll be cheaper for the manufacturers to do so.

Still striving for World Domination,


Segher