[KLUG Advocacy] Darwin for x86
Adam Williams
advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:34:19 -0500 (EST)
>>OK. So now there's really no reason to stay with Windows ;}
>I've been saying that for YEARS!!!
Me to!
>* IDE drives may not work on x86. Try it, if it doesn't work, it's a
>known problem.* SCSI CD-ROM drives are not supported
>* Only the PIIX4 IDE controllers have been found to work.
>The list goes on.
Ouch!
>Also, AMD cpus and chipsets are not supported.
And thats a bad thing how? :)
>It was nice of apple to release it. Perhaps we'll start seeing third
>party releases with decent hardware support.
>From what I've read I like how they handle DSAs. Maybe a little of that
code could get ported over to Linux....