Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:03 +0100, Edgar Hucek wrote: >> For your intresst. Last week i bought a new toy. >> One of those shiny new Intel iMac's. I search the >> net if someone is trying to get linux on it. I saw > > You apparently missed our own bugzilla[1][2].
Mea cuplpa. For the moment it should only be an info mail ;) >> only most people only wanna tu run windows on it *gah*. >> So i started a little research. At the moment i have >> Gentoo Linux running on it on an external USB hdd. >> >> Wouldn't it be a nice storry for the Gentoo newssite ? > > Sure it would. Even better would be that 2006.0 has support for booting > on these new machines because we cooperated to get the necessary support > into catalyst. There are too many open questions yet. Don't get in a hurry. Linux booted the first time 2 days ago. So we have no prove how stable it is. Also to get it booted is somewhat complicate at the moment. http://nak.journalspace.com/?cmd=displaycomments&dcid=407&entryid=407 The kernel have some more os less troubles. The video out i did is more than a hack. Not realy usable for public use yet. Lets wait and develop on this baby to get it stable and evrything working. >> Look here for a first snapshoot and some infos. >> http://xbox-linux.org/mactel/index.php/Main_Page >> >> I plan to releas patches and an howtoo soon. > > Please contact me immediately, as there is a very limited window of > opportunity for us to be able to make the necessary changes to get this > in before the 2006.0 release. As i sayed no hurry at the moment. Call the development at this time alpha ;) Lets plan it for the next release. >> Things need some polish. >> At the Moment only some things are tested. For >> the video i use a patched vesafb driver. The kernel >> 2.6.16-rc3 seems to have some acpi problems on it. > cu gimli -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
