[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC

"Alan Burkes" <firstakir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > The Pegasos OF is also broken in many ways. I think the best way to
> > work around all these issues is to use the floppy boot mode for PPC
> > always....
> Argh. This upsets the perfectionist in me. I simply cannot believe
> that it isn't possible to use OpenFirmware to boot Haiku.
> 
> But then again, Making Haiku more OF-Friendly would probably require
> changes in the Kernel, making so much more work needed, so it doesn't
> seem practical.

Haiku works fine when using the NewWorld Mac OF. Most other OF 
implementations are broken in fundamental ways that would need specific 
per implementation work-arounds; it doesn't make any sense to really 
try to use the OF for those, but we can still use it for working OFs.

Bye,
   Axel.

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