Re: cpu.h and Color Classic/LC 575

Miod Vallat <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:34:53 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> I am attempting to run OpenBSD/mac68k 3.9 on a Color Classic that has
>> been upgraded with an LC 575 motherboard and full 68040 but without
>> the 640x480 video hack. In order to run Mac OS 7.5.5, I had to change
>> an item in the System file for the Gestalt ID 99 from Boot Process 21
>> to 10. I get the same bus error in OpenBSD/mac68k that I got with
>> System 7.5.5 before being patched (it looks different but the error
>> is the same). Any idea if modifying sys/arch/mac68k/include/cpu.h to
>> read Gestalt 99 instead of 92 for the LC 575 would have any effect? I
>> would just try it and rebuild the kernel but that takes a very long
>> time so I thought I would ask first before I try it.
>
> Hard to say without knowing the exact error. You can try and just build
> a kernel overnight.

 From a code point of view, LC575 (Gestalt 92) and Performa 580 (Gestalt 99)
are completely identical (except for the machine description string), so
this will hardly change anything.

Miod