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Create my own ROM
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It isn't surprising at all. Do you know why flashes for Intel cards don't work in PowerPC? It's because they use EFI, which will not work with PowerPC Macs.
IMO if you had the skills to be able to do so you wouldn't be asking the question. I think it's probably way more difficult than you are assuming. I know I couldn't do it.
Well no, it is just that developers don't want to spend more time making 2 roms.
No, that is not the issue. If you could make 2 ROMs, people would. However, you can't.
As Martin Luther King once said - "I have a dream..."
I admire you're ambitious attitude but being told straight up that EFI & PowerPC are totally & utterly incompatible, and to then say you can do it - you just need to be told what to do is ludicrous.
I admire you're ambitious attitude but being told straight up that EFI & PowerPC are totally & utterly incompatible, and to then say you can do it - you just need to be told what to do is ludicrous.
And to listen when you hear it.
You're not going to get anywhere without the source code of the video card in question, that is for sure.
What I was saying was that an open firmware rom AND EFI rom could be created.
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No, and these kinds of comments really are not helpful.
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Can we just close this thread?
No, and these kinds of comments really are not helpful.
ROMs are not source code. They are compiled and it is not possible to decompile a GPU ROM. You need the source, only AMD/ATI and Nvidia have that and there is no way for you to get it. And unless I'm mistaken, GPU ROMs of this age are written in assembly.
The last time I was making ROMs is 20 years ago. Chips like PROM, EPROM and EEPROM; some to be erased with UV light. That was fun ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eprom32k.jpg)
But instead of my old meaningless stories you might want to read here
http://themacelite.wikidot.com/nvidia-general-flashing
The biggest challenge will be to get the technical documentation to program the chips properly. I think that the companies treat that as confidential and closed source.
Good luck with your endeavor though.
But instead of my old meaningless stories you might want to read here
http://themacelite.wikidot.com/nvidia-general-flashing
The biggest challenge will be to get the technical documentation to program the chips properly. I think that the companies treat that as confidential and closed source.
Good luck with your endeavor though.
I remember having to work with the ROMS ages ago. You not only need the source code, you need documentation, and sometimes you even find the ROM is written in assembly code, which is a bitch to program if you don't understand it.
Well, you cannot make them. Closed source period. If they ever release the source code, you can make it. Otherwise it is against the law and you could be sued for that.
No, how are all other PowerPC roms made? Are they all illegal?! I have a very nice decompiler.
Which ones?
Nvidia makes some of its source code GPL. I mean if you really knew how to do that, you wouldn't be posting here. If you have a 'decompiler' what are you doing here in the first place?
You cannot do that, for the reasons stated above by MisterKeeks and Intell
Stop this nonsense, you cannot, may not do this, unless you have strict access to the Source Code.
Flashing is when the EFI Firmware from a Mac card is placed on the firmware card of a Windows card to interact with the BIOS segment of the Windows card. You can only flash if you have the Open Firmware ROMs for the card you want to flash, and if it's recent, you don't have the ROMs.
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Impossible. One doesn't create the ROM, you merely transfer it, but there are no Open Firmware ROMs to transfer
Why not? Every time someone provides any factual evidence that it is impossible, you return with a blind statement about how it is, you just need someone to give you instructions. It simply cannot be done.
If I am correct, which I am not sure i am, my decompiler has done it's deeds well.
You're looking at the raw hex of it. Not the source code. You can't do anything useful with that.
It cannot be created because you don't have the assembly source for the GPU chip. Only ATI/AMD and Nvidia have that and they are not releasing it anytime soon because it is considered a trade secrete. Just like you can't rewrite Windows XP to run on a PowerPC without emulation. You lack the source code to recompile it to be able to run on the PowerPC architecture. It cannot be done. Not "difficult". It cannot be done.