[haiku-development] Re: PPC sync / isync cleanup PATCH and adding missing kernel calls.

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:08:58 +0200 CEST

Eric Petit <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/7/09 4:04 AM, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
[...]
> > going on.  The PPC PCI drivers are incomplete, but until Haiku can 
> > at least
> > load the kernel into memory on qemu/real hardware, little progress 
> > will be
> > made on the PPC front.
> I guess the next thing I'd try is adding some debug within QEMU, 
> maybe 
> that'd enlighten us about why it's locking up. I'll let you know if I 
> find out anything... I don't have any experience with PPC assembly 
> either except for some AltiVec, but obviously that doesn't help here.

That would be the way to go, indeed.
FWIW the last time I checked, Haiku would boot fine on my G4 iBook 
(this is a few years back); so whatever happened since then, seems to 
have broken it.

Bye,
   Axel.


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