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Min1123
Jan 1, 2012, 11:45:54 PM1/1/12
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Whatever happened to this project? I see the new posts here, but it's
been almost 2 years since the last post on the News on the website. I
figured several years ago that I'd wait until PD had something that
could compile and use GNU sourcecode before trying to do anymore with
it, but I really haven't heard anything. Can someone tell me what the
status of PD 9 is, and the status of GNU tools for it, gcc, g++, make,
automake, autoconf, m4, bison, ld, and I know this is a scary one,
fdisk (I'd like to at least try to make an HFS+ disk natively and copy
over the FS and see if I can't get it to play on metal, even if it's
kinda silly given the hardware support ATM).
been almost 2 years since the last post on the News on the website. I
figured several years ago that I'd wait until PD had something that
could compile and use GNU sourcecode before trying to do anymore with
it, but I really haven't heard anything. Can someone tell me what the
status of PD 9 is, and the status of GNU tools for it, gcc, g++, make,
automake, autoconf, m4, bison, ld, and I know this is a scary one,
fdisk (I'd like to at least try to make an HFS+ disk natively and copy
over the FS and see if I can't get it to play on metal, even if it's
kinda silly given the hardware support ATM).
Aladin
Jan 6, 2012, 10:31:47 AM1/6/12
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Hi,
What happened to this project is mainly lack of contribution (probably due to lack of interest(s)).
Concerning development tools, please take a look at http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/macports/macportsonpuredarwin which shows you that part of the GNU stuff is functionnal before the big freeze.
About `fdisk', it should work too but perhaps not fully or for what you need: http://www.puredarwin.org/system/app/pages/search?scope=search-site&q=fdisk
Min1123
Jan 7, 2012, 8:40:17 PM1/7/12
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Sorry, there was a big freeze? Is this related to the PD9, or just
the update cycle?
At any rate, thanks for the response, I'll look into that.
After my first post I spent a few days playing with loopback devices
on Linux (Ubuntu x64 12.04 daily) trying to make a nice KVM image from
PD-Nano and PD-Xmas that had some of these things in it, but I stopped
because I couldn't get GRUB2 to actually load the kernel. I had an
MBR layout with an EXT2 partition for GRUB to be on, then an HFS+
partition made by Linux that all the PD stuff had been copied into.
Even putting the Voodoo kernel that works from the Nano image onto the
EXT2 and trying to have GRUB boot it with it's XNU support failed. It
tries, then declares it can't find the file after loading it for a
bit. I'm guessing it's a bug in the version Ubuntu uses, since it
probably has nothing that actually loads a XNU kernel.
I'll give the Chameleon and chainloading on that install page from the
second link a shot (syntax for GRUB2 is a bit different).
For me it would be kind neat to see the Debian guys pick this up and
play with it, like they have with kFreeBSD and the HURD, but I think
it needs some more support before that can really happen. I'll post
back if I actually succeed at something, or if somebody just wants to
see my steps so far.
the update cycle?
At any rate, thanks for the response, I'll look into that.
After my first post I spent a few days playing with loopback devices
on Linux (Ubuntu x64 12.04 daily) trying to make a nice KVM image from
PD-Nano and PD-Xmas that had some of these things in it, but I stopped
because I couldn't get GRUB2 to actually load the kernel. I had an
MBR layout with an EXT2 partition for GRUB to be on, then an HFS+
partition made by Linux that all the PD stuff had been copied into.
Even putting the Voodoo kernel that works from the Nano image onto the
EXT2 and trying to have GRUB boot it with it's XNU support failed. It
tries, then declares it can't find the file after loading it for a
bit. I'm guessing it's a bug in the version Ubuntu uses, since it
probably has nothing that actually loads a XNU kernel.
I'll give the Chameleon and chainloading on that install page from the
second link a shot (syntax for GRUB2 is a bit different).
For me it would be kind neat to see the Debian guys pick this up and
play with it, like they have with kFreeBSD and the HURD, but I think
it needs some more support before that can really happen. I'll post
back if I actually succeed at something, or if somebody just wants to
see my steps so far.
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