Bug#436450: RFH: mol -- The Mac-on-Linux emulator
Hi, Gaudenz.
On Aug 07 2007, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> The Mac-On-Linux packages are formally team maintained, but actually
> I'm the only active maintainer and my time is quite limited.
I am in the New Maintainer's queue and I have an iBook G3 which is
currently running a mix of Ubuntu and Debian, but I plan on sticking to
Debian in the near future.
I would like to help with the port of PowerPC, as it seems that this
platform is not receiving the deserved love by Ubuntu and it it seems
that MacOS X 10.5 (the next release) will not run on computers with a G3
processor, unfortunately. :-(
> This is why it took quite long to prepare the long overdue update to
> support the latest kernels. I would be glad to welcome some more
> members to the pkg-mol team.
Do you have some easy tasks that could be accomplished by a re-newcomer
to the PowerPC platform (I say re-newcomer because I used to be
moderately regular in debian-powerpc, but life has changed drastically
in the past few years), just to get my feet wet again?
> The packages are maintained in the alioth repository on
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mol
Nice.
> Source tarballs (repackaged and original) are available from
> http://pkg-mol.alioth.debian.org/
Ok. This is also nice to know.
> If you need help or have further questions, feel free to ask on
> pkg-mol-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.
Just for your information, I used to have success with MoL during the
2.4 era, when BenH tree was *the* tree to use to have your system
working with Linux. It's been a long time.
> This is a small TODO list from the top of my head:
> - check configure options we could activate (especially pci-proxy
> support and debugger support)
I don't know exactly what is meant by the pci-proxy support.
> - better support for running linux inside mol (probably this is
> currently broken, guest side drivers are not packaged for debian,
> sources are in the old mol bk archive, snapshot at
> http://pkg-mol.alioth.debian.org/bk_checkouts/bk_checkouts.tar.bz2)
Running MacOS X 10.3 (or was it 10.2) with iTunes was doable, but I
never tried playing with running MacOS 9 nor with Linux inside MoL. It
would be a nice thing to try, though.
> - fix building mol twice in a row (double compilation support release
> goal!)
Depending on the package structure, it can be easier. Is Samuel still
upstream for MoL or has the debian-mol-team taken the duty of having it
upstream?
What kind of patch system is being used? I'm familiar with quilt, but
not with dpatch (not that I couldn't learn, guess or pester with some
questions about it). :-)
> - check and possibly package new gui frontend (svn module mol-gui at
> mac-on-linux.sf.net)
I went to the site and skimmed through, but I didn't see anything
regarding a GUI. What is meant as a gui for MoL? Wouldn't it run anymore
in a Window or in a separate console?
> - write missing manpage for mol-img
> - ...
Ok.
Thanks for taking care of MoL, Rogério Brito.
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