On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:41:40PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: > On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:43, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > >It does not surprise me at all. It is not the fault of Quik, it is > >simply that OF is completely broken on OldWorld PowerMacs. Those > >machines were never intended to be booted from OF. It is the MacOSROM > >which does all the job of hardware initialisation, thus the correct > >behaviour with miBoot. :) > > I beg to differ, slightly. Although open firmware is broken in > different and interesting ways on oldworld macs, whichever way you > boot, it's open firmware that does the initial booting step, > irrespective of whether you then go into the ROM / miBoot, ROM / > MacOS or the quik bootloader (or even the NetBSD bootloader, if > that's your thing). True. > All that's missing for Wallstreets to boot from quik with accelerated > video, it would seem, is a little video hardware initialisation; that > step _should_ be derivable from the ATI documentation. Like I said, > I don't currently have the time to deal with it, so I'll live with > video=ofonly for the moment. Also true, but that initialisation is done in the MacOSROM, thus my reasoning above to have the support for *all* OldWorld machines. :) Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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