[haiku-development] Re: PowerPC and the APM

Mac os x has a feature that allows 'fat' binaries; i.e. binaries with
multiple architectures.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Duane,
>
> Am 12.08.2008 um 20:49 schrieb Duane Ryan:
>
>> The cool thing about this map is that, theoretically, both ppc and
>> apple's i386 macs can boot it, using a universal binary. So if I get
>> this image working, intel macs will be able to boot this sucker.
>
> You sure about that? I thought Rosetta was a feature of Mac OS X v10.4+ on
> Intel, not of the Intel Macs at EFI or hardware level... If you reach the
> point of trying to execute ppc (e.g., kernel) machine code as generated by
> the Haiku cross-compiler, I don't think it's going to execute on an i386
> machine (illegal instruction etc.).
>
> Andreas
>
>
>



-- 
Duane Ryan Bailey

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