Friday 26 December 2008


1.42 512MB Ram mac mini running Amiga OS 4.

3 comments:

  1. Have that running since last year's christmas but there is no network card driver available.
    If you have a solution, I would be interested!

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  2. Is a network driver the only thing required to make OS4 on the Mac Mini worthwhile?

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  3. The approach which seems logical to me is to take the driver which works on this hardware for an open source OS (eg: Linux PPC version) and compile a driver for it under OS4.
    For the iBook G4 the driver is "Sun (Gem)", the source for which can be easily obtained on the net.
    Of course, I wouldn't know the first thing about porting it to OS4, but I am certain it's more complicated that I've made it sound. The driver source is quite large as I believe it caters for many hardware types, so it could probably be trimmed down alot.
    Forget about wireless, apple uses closed source Broadcom chipset unless there has been a change to that I'm not aware of.
    I think USB will be the biggest hurdle. I suspect it's complicated to write a USB stack. That said however, with Kbd/mouse working on HID that may be good enough for now - just use a R/W CD for transferring files.
    Radeon > 9250 still won't work. I'd like to see a driver for my iBooks 9550(9600). I'd love an OS4 laptop.
    I'm seriously considering buying a SAM440, if I do I'll have a development platform and may look into it later this year, no time at the moment.

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