On 16.02.2012 15:27, Axel Dörfler wrote:
Hi Michael, On 14.02.2012 06:42, Michael Manley wrote:I was wondering the status of the PowerPC port of Haiku. As I have a lot of PowerPC Related hardware (iMac G4, PowerBook G3 and G4), I am willing to develop on the PowerPC port. I do have knowledge of the PPC Architecture and will possibly help on anything needed to make this version bootable on the hardware I do have.Now, however, you might need to put in some effort to get the boot loader and/or kernel to work again, I don't know. Testing it would surely get you a better idea. I think the last one that did so, and might have some additionalinsight on the current state is Alexander a.k.a. kallisti5.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO! :)The PowerPC port is actually pretty far along, you can even download a *double* unsupported nightly here: http://haiku-files.org/unsupported-builds/ppc/haiku_unsupported-r43238-ppc-haiku-boot-cd-ppc.zip http://haiku-files.org/unsupported-builds/ppc/haiku_unsupported-r43238-ppc-haiku-image.zip
The PowerPC support "enhancement": https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1048 Recent work: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/log/?qt=grep&q=PPC http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/log/?qt=grep&q=PowerPCBooting via openfirmware and PXE is definitely the route to go for development / hacking:
http://haiku-os.org/guides/booting/over_local_networkGetting the Haiku bootloader working directly off a cd (by pressing command + C) (ex: booting haiku_unsupported-r43238-ppc-haiku-boot-cd-ppc.zip directly) is pretty bad atm, maybe a good place to start?
That ticket links most of the biggest issues, interrupts as Axel said come to mind as well as PowerPC PCI stuff.
Drop into IRC (#haiku-dev on irc.freenode.net) if you have Haiku powerPC dev questions.
-- Alex
