Re: Booter for 9.3 kernel not working

Robert Swindells <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:30:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:49:48AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> I was just about to ask about this? it?s somewhat distressing that
>> the source code for such a critical portion of the boot process isn?t
>> in the source tree.
>
> Yes, it is bad that it isn't somwhere in a public repository and also
> needs an ancient MacOS (upto 8) only toolchain to build - this all
> makes improvements very hard.
>
> We had this thread before and had folks trying to create a local working
> build environment for it.

There are native tools available, ThinkC and MPW, I have both of them
on MacOS 7.5.

I think Booter currently needs ThinkC to build.