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Re: Mac-only binary, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III



On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Scott Holder <scott@iamscott.net> wrote:
>  vbOn 11/18/2013 2:29 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Patrick McCarthy wrote:
>>
>>> The ARAnyM kernel and initrd you posted unfortunately didn't work, I put
>>> them in Penguin in 32bit mode and it hung at 'MacLinux ABCDEFGHIJK'.
>>
>> I've built a Mac-only 3.12 kernel that you or Scott may want to test, just
>> in case the regression relates to multi-platform support (it's a long shot
>> though).
>>
>> You can download it here:
>>
>> http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/patrickjmc/vmlinux-3.12.0-mac.gz
>>
>> http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/patrickjmc/kernel-binary-3.12.0-mac.tar.gz
>
> This booted great for me. It might just be placebo effect but I feel like it

Good! So it's a multi-platform/driver issue.

> booted a fair bit faster than the last one. Modules seem great too. This

Single-platform kernels are usually faster.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds


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