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Upgrade Your G4 Cube to a Pentium M Processor
reklusband writes "This report tells of a company that has released a processor upgrade for G4 cubes; this upgrade is in the form of a Pentium M. The cube becomes Windows + Linux, x86-blah compatible."
Device drivers are in the area where FreeBSD and Darwin differ the most, unfortunately.
x86 Macs will not use OpenFirmware.
...here
What is the point of the internet?
I'm not the original poster, but how about Apple as a source?
No Open Firmware on x86 Macs
Source: Apple, Universal Binary Guidelines.
This one is interesting.
I went there again as I don't care IRC serious but it turns out to be, its not a joke at all.
Its "toby" at irc.freenode.net which is said to be from Apple itself being chanop on excellent open source projects not-so-excellent official support channels.
Its a normal thing which is a problem for any opensource projects IRC channel.
Generally, that would be every device that is not of a "standard class" (mass storage, generally) released after the OS was shipped.
Unless people are willing to download hundreds of megabytes of driver additions via Windows Update the OS is just not going to have the modules to talk to the newest hardware out of the box.
Actually, Apple hasn't decided yet. It sounds to me like the front-runner is EFI.
(The devkits will be BIOS, but that's apparently not the final word.)
E pluribus unum
This is a hoax.. and not even a very good one. They didn't even include photoshopped pictures of the CPU board with the Pentium-M.
Basically, they are claiming to make a CPU board that plugs into the Cube's main board. With a few BIOS tweaks they can run x86 software.
This is, of course, bullshit. It will take much more than plugging a board in, and some BIOS mods, to get a Mac/PowerPC system to be able to use an x86 processor.
We can say "fuck" on /. you know. Self-censoring yourself only makes you look silly.