[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC

> It would be a *massive* advert for Haiku to have it booting on the
> PS3.  The story of Haiku booting on a PS3 would hit Slashdot, OSNews,
> Kotaku and a host of other sites.  I don't know if that will get 
> Haiku
> any more programmers, but it would definitely get lots of people
> reading about Haiku who wouldn't know about it otherwise.

I was hoping m68k port would do the same :P

> Right now the only issue that I can think of is 3D.  As mentioned in
> another post the GPU is locked down by the hypervisor.

As if we had any working 3D support yet :D

Still, I don't like the idea much of being forced out of accessing the 
real hardware, I don't cash for an hypervisor, I cash for the real 
thing, dammit :p

> I am not skilled enough to do the port, but if some reading the list
> is (François?) but can't afford to buy a PS3 I will help out with
> cash.

Well I'm still busy with other stuff atm...

François.

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