On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, Josh Juran wrote:
I'm not in a position to do testing on hardware or development relating to Linux bootup, but as before, I can maintain and build Mac OS programs.
I've entered the Penguin-19 bugs that I know of into the mac68k bug tracker on sourceforge. I didn't add feature requests, like support for the Mac LC II 12 MB RAM configuration, or support for zstd-format compressed vmlinux. (Nevermind netbsd support, or device tree support...) Some of those bugs and missing features apply to EMILE as well. IMHO, what EMILE really needs is a MacOS GUI like Penguin. So my advice to prospective mac bootloader developers is, add a GUI to EMILE rather than try to maintain both packages. That's easier said than done -- Penguin is a hard act to follow. But, in theory, thanks to Retro68, it could be done without resorting to proprietary tooling. Both the Linux executables and the MacOS application could be built with a modern GCC. Consider that, without a modern GCC, it will be difficult to re-use the available code e.g. for kernel image decompression. Hence, it will be more difficult to fix the long standing Penguin bug relating to gzip decompression (which does not affect EMILE).
