[OpenBIOS] patch to allow Mac OS 9 to boot

BALATON Zoltan balaton at eik.bme.hu
Fri Feb 5 13:33:52 CET 2016


On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Programmingkid wrote:
> Here is another reason why I think the CR-LF patch should be applied:
[...]
> With and without the patch Fedora makes it to the same place.

This does not change that it's a hack we should avoid, especially if it 
only works by chance.

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> From memory the r-stack commands were being executed but the only reason
> this worked was because of the OpenBIOS trampoline between calling each
> word which just about allowed execution to continue.

Do you have any more info about what are these r-stack commands and what's 
the issue with them currently so we can find a way that this could be 
cleanly resolved? Maybe if you can describe what needs to be done someone 
would be able to pick it up and create a patch.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan



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