[openbeos] Re: Haiku on G3/G4

mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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.



We do have all the info we need. Macs are fairly homogenous, hardware-wise, and everyone already has open-source drivers for it (even Apple). For example, basically all of the pre-G3 powermacs have the same kind of NIC, the same soundcard, the same SCSI controller, the same serial controllers, etc. Every mac since then has had a different NIC, but it's all the same one (AFAIK). Same with sound, etc. As for graphics, it's just Radeons and GeForce cards. The only snag are the new Airport cards, which are rebranded Broadcom 4306s, which no one knows how to write drivers for.
-Nathan

Other related posts: