OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware

Re:OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware by amatecha on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:04AM (#26210957)

literally just installed OpenBSD on my iMac G4 last week, haha (oh yeah, everything works flawlessly btw, including graphics acceleration)

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Re:OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware by rgovostes on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:38AM (#26211109)

The iMac G4 didn't support virtualization, so booting an alternative OS is more attractive. And the Nvidia GPU is probably easier to find cross-platform drivers for. New drivers or some sort of IOKit compatibility layer need to be developed for the M1 GPU (which is orders of magnitude more complex).

(I can run OpenBSD on any modern piece of hardware, though; the novelty and nostalgia are in running Mac OS 9 on that.)

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Re:OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware by fulafel on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:44AM (#26211393)

It's a PowerPC architecture CPU so from hardware POV it supports virtualization out of the box[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualizat....

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Re:OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware by ogre_codes on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:20AM (#26211296)

I think most people would prefer not having an extra OS underneath when possible.

Also, the G4 iMac is a special piece of hardware in my book. I'd love to Frankenstein an M1 G4 iMac.

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Re:OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware by amatecha on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:53AM (#26221311)

Yeah it's a great model for classic Mac gaming as it has pretty good specs, 3d accel, and can run OS 9 and OS X. I've got two of them (among many other Macs) so I figured I'd try OpenBSD on this one, haha :)

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Re:OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware by anthk on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:11AM (#26212046)

It did. Check Mac On Linux.

The iMac G4 didn't support virtualization,

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