On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:07:24AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Ted Roby <ted.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've noticed this environment variable in misc/hfsplus
> >
> >
> > # this only makes sense on macintosh (powerpc) systems.
> > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= powerpc
> >
> >
> > It used to only make sense on powerpc systems, but Macintosh
> > hardware now uses i386 architecture. Of course, changing this
> > variable is not enough to cause a successful build.
> >
> > Has someone else setup a common way to get misc/hfsplus
> > on i386, and I missed the answer on google?
> >
> > Is there a reason this would be a bad idea?
> >
> > If I "port" this port to i386 would it be warmly accepted?
>
> I'm sure someone else will correct me if I'm wrong. I believe the
> only reason this is needed on ppc machines is because the openfirmware
> expects an hfs volume to boot from so the bootloader is stored on a
> small hfs partition. If that's the case this isn't needed on i386
> Macs.
>
> -Bryan
Not completely right. OpenBSD/macppc can boot from a boot loader
stored on a hfs (NOT hfsplus) partition and from a msdos partition on
a mbr partioned disk.
I suspect the OP would like to dual boot his intel mac machine and
still have access from OpenBSD to the files stored on a hfsplus
partition.
-Otto
