Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 22:10 UTC, submitted by mckill
We reported on the lack of Atom support in development builds of Mac OS X 10.6.2, but a more recent build re-enables support for Intel's Atom line, popular in netbooks. "In the latest development build Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535. The Atom lives another day, but nothing is concrete until the final version of 10.6.2 is out."
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Member since:2007-06-12
intel is the one creating and providing the GMA drivers to apple, they are the ones dragging their feet with the 64bit versions of their drivers.
not that it matters anyways since there is pretty much no real reason a machine with a GMA card could really take advantage of what a 64bit kernel provides.
Member since:2005-07-06
intel is the one creating and providing the GMA drivers to apple, they are the ones dragging their feet with the 64bit versions of their drivers.
not that it matters anyways since there is pretty much no real reason a machine with a GMA card could really take advantage of what a 64bit kernel provides.
not that it matters anyways since there is pretty much no real reason a machine with a GMA card could really take advantage of what a 64bit kernel provides.
That makes absolutely no sense what so ever - you need a 64bit GMA extension so that the kernel can run in 64bit mode; it has nothing to do with whether or not the GPU takes advantage of a 64bit kernel. The GPU is absolutely irrelevant to what is being discussed.
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2005-07-06
Any interesting development whilst reading through the usual channels I subscribe to; build 10C540 has been released:
http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2009/11/04/mac-os-x-1062-buil...
AFP
Resolves an AFP panic.
AirPort
Resolves a performance issue on new iMacs.
GraphicsDrivers
Fixes a system hang issue on some video cards.
Resolves a kernel panic on some video cards.
Resolves an issue with plugging and unplugging to an Apple TV.
Kernel
Resolves a VMWare issue.
USB
Resolves a panic with USB.
It appears that 10.6.2 is turning into Apple's very own Service Pack 2 - packed with a tonne of fixes across the board. An interesting thing that has happened, the X3100 GMA is now 64bit, so I guess gradually we're seeing Apple migrating their own drivers to 64bit during 10.6 release cycle in time for going fully 64bit when 10.7 is released - I'm sure they'll keep the 32bit kernel/support around for a while.
Edited 2009-11-05 01:39 UTC