It sets up the mac to boot the BSD kernel then reboots the Mac. I wrote to Nigel Pearson about maybe doing this in the booter, but after a couple of trials which did not work we agreed that maybe this belongs in the kernel so that we could turn on the acclerator card at boot time and turn it off at shutdown. I was wondering if it would be possible to turn back on the card as the kernel is booting. I would do the programming myself if you could indicate in what part of the source code this should be done. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Assumptions are correct.
It would then be easier to patch the driver so that the control call to disable it doesnt happen. There isnt a way to detect its prescense. The only thing you can do is turn it on and see if the speed increases. This is correct only on the Mac LC, since its ROMs have a bug working with the 68030. The Mac LC II will reboot just fine without turning off the card.