Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] mac mini

[Erik O. <er...@pl...>]

Great! I will give this a shot.

As far as building the kernel goes, I assume I should not have any
modules and just try dumping a monolithic kernel on my USB boot
device?

Thanks,

-- Erik

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:24:39AM -0800, Michael Steil wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Done that. The Mac mini framebuffer is always 2048 pixels wide, no  
> matter how wide the screen is. So all you need to do is modify  
> imacfb.c to support a mode like this:
> 
> 		case M_MINI:
> 			screen_info.lfb_width = 1024;
> 			screen_info.lfb_height = 768;
> 			screen_info.lfb_linelength = 2048 * 4;
> 			break;
> 
> This way, it will always *use* 1024x768, no matter how big the screen  
> really is. We would need UGA calls to find that out.
> 
> I've attached the altered version of imacfb.c. use imacfb=mini on the  
> command line. Gimli, can you please merge?
> 
>   Michael
> 


> 
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 7:53 PM, Erik Osheim wrote:
> 
> >Hey I have an Intel mac mini. I've been hoping to boot Linux on it,
> >but so far haven't had much luck. I *have* gotten the rEFIt boot
> >loader (and shell) to work; I think the problem had to do with the
> >kernel I had (I think it expected a Radeon graphics card rather than
> >the Intel one).
> >
> >Anyone working on this? I would be happy to look at things if someone
> >could get me started, or try stuff that someone else has.
>