RTAS on PowerMac Newworld

[Donald Cowart]

Newbie question, what is RTAS?

Donald Cowart  (dcowart at acld.lib.fl.us)
Network Manager
Alachua County Library District
Gainesville, FL

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 tom_gall at vnet.ibm.com wrote:

>
> FASSINO Jean-Philippe wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just a question about RTAS on PowerMac G4,
> > does linux kernel can call RTAS function ?
>
> Hi Jean-Philippe,
>
>   You can call RTAS on a PowerMac but I wouldn't do it. From what I understand
> Apple doesn't recommend that you make use of RTAS on their hardware.
>
>   On RS/6000 hardware you most certainly can use RTAS.
>
> > And if not, why ?
> > I'm trying to do it and that fail...
> >
> > JP
>
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