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].

> 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.

> 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.

> 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.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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