[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC

Matt Emson <memsom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> The other point - the Beige and B&W G3's have
> Apple style serial ports, so serial debugging
> will be a LOT more simple to implement. Debugging 
> kernel issues with serial would be a whole lot 
> simpler, surely?

FWIW the B&W G3 PSU can be swapped for an ATX PSU 
with a few simple modifications to an ATX extension
cable and I'm guessing the ATI Rage cards (common
with B&W G3s, IIRC) should be easier to support than
more recent graphics cards.

But I wonder if it isn't smarter, at this stage,
to use a Pegasos, Efika or Sam440 board.

Anything which is reasonably modern, documented, has
serial ports, comes in a standard form-factor (or in
a decent case) and takes current/recent RAM and 
peripherals.

The Sam440 has U-boot. (not OpenFirmware)
http://www.sam440.com/

/Jonas.

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