[haiku-development] Re: State of ppc

Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> · Mon, 31 May 2010 01:30:16 +0200

Hey guys,

Some cool news on the PowerPC port: I have initial graphics support

ready for testing. Ticket #6105 gives us the splash screen, I just

need to clean up (or remove) display mode selection and we need to

check whether identity-mapping the framebuffer is okay. Graphics are

not exactly helpful for debugging all the other problems and

deficiencies of course, but I consider it a nice proof of concept!

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6105

TCP boot support is waiting for review.
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5240

To work properly across reboots, TCP (or any other time-initialized

PRNG to come) needs a time fix:

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6061

iSCSI boot support is still unfinished (broken). If some SCSI guru

wants to take a look I can post an updated patch.

I've started tracking the QEMU breakage:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6071

I think I've found a first bug in its OpenBIOS firmware: A memory

translation is erroneously overwritten. The resulting progress with my

patch, effectively creating the page table at a different address, is

only marginal though.

http://www.openfirmware.info/mailman/listinfo/openbios

Cheers,

Andreas