[openbeos] Re: Haiku on G3/G4

> Last I heard, we didn't have enough info for native (compiled) drivers. That 
> the glue chips that Apple writes have to be controlled via the Forth 
> open-firmware stuff. If I am wrong, well, than that changes a lot.

A huge number of Linux distros, Net and OpenBSD all have totally
binary, univeral G3/G4/G5 boot CD's. AFAIK the drivers are written in
C, not Forth. YaBoot might be written in Forth, however, not sure.

Theres definately enough info out there to get most of Apples machines
working - I tried my YDL on a friends 900Mhz iBook and everything, I
mean *everything* was supported, without needing driver wrappers or
any other nasty crud clogging it up.

Cian

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