On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:53, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 00:58 -0700, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Anybody else playing with a new Intel Mac trying to get Fedora Core > > working on it? I'm happy to report that I've got my wife's 20" iMac > > booting under its own power as of a few minutes ago. > > I've got a Macbook Pro with Rawhide, but I'm using the kernel from > mactel-linux.org together with a Fedora initrd. Very similar to my setup then. Are you booting via lilo or elilo? > > Still looking into what it takes to get X working -- it works fine in the > > installer if you've got the latest firmware, since syslinux uses the bios > > emulation layer, which provides some basic vga support that allows you to > > use the vesa driver for install, but I'm trying to stick to pure efi. > > Yea, X.org bails for me with > > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid Argument > > I haven't tried that hard yet to coerce our resident X hackers to look > at it... I'll have to finally tinker with X some tomorrow w/the day off and all. Got some pointers from ajax, though it looks like you're already doing what he suggested... (imacfb w/fbdev for X) > > At the moment, I'm using elilo to load my initrd and kernel, which are > > from a custom kernel build, because the stock i686 kernels have no efi > > goodies enabled. In theory, enabling the necessary bits and adding > > patches to the latest FC kernel should work, but going that route, the HD > > wasn't getting picked up, so I still need to figure out exactly why that > > is, comparing the kernel config from mactel-linux.org to the one I hacked > > together based on the 2080 FC kernel (both had EFI stuff flipped on and > > the iMac patch added). > > Any chance you can post the diff on the config? I'll work on that some tomorrow. Its pretty hefty. > And exactly what patches > to use (I'm using the imac-2.6.16-rc4 one with CONFIG_FB_IMAC set)? I took a stock 2.6.16.5 kernel and patched in the imac-2.6.16.1.patch from mactel-linux.org, also using the 2.6.16 config from there. Same patch applies cleanly to the 2080 FC kernel, builds and installs fine, but no love on boot. > It would probably be worthwhile to patch Rawhide kernels too, cuz then it's > probably easier talking davej into taking the changes :-) It'll be even easier in two weeks, when I'm sitting just down the hall from him... (Well, at least on the days when he's working from the office. :) I'm hoping we'll get some mactel hardware in the office sooner than later to play with also. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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