[haiku] Re: Haiku PowerPC network booting now working.
- From: Alan Burkes <firstakir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:50:30 -0800
There is a general standard on how PowerPC machines should operate,
which includes OpenFirmware. All macs technically follow that
standard, however, the OpenFirmware implementation was broken in the
early models. I don't think it was really fixed until the G4 models
were introduced.
On 1/4/10, Marcos Alves <retrojogos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> First of all, I'm no programmer so take my opinions with a grain of salt
> (maybe two for good measure).
>
> According to the current state of the ppc port, I'd *think* it'd boot on any
> Gx PPC machine since it only gets to the kernel debugger.
>
> Regards,
> Marcos.
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Fredrik Modèen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> >> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:09:32 +0100 CET, "François Revol" <
>> >> revol@xxxxxxx>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >> first time in 2+ years the PPC kernel has seen the light of day.
>> >> >
>> >> > Nice, though here I still get those invalid opcodes in QEMU...
>> >>
>> >> From what I hear running the latest svn/cvs version of
>> >> qemu/OpenBIOS-OpenFirmware is supposed to have some pretty big
>> >> PowerPC
>> >> fixes which may make it boot further. (I can't comment on this just
>> >> yet as
>> >> I've yet to try)
>> >
>> > Yes, indeed it goes further than it used to, still it fails there. but
>> > maybe it's a regression of the current git tree (yeah they use git...
>> > this alone is a regression :p).
>> When it comes to harware what PPC harware can we expect to be able to run
>> on?
>>
>> >
>> > François.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> MVH
>> Fredrik Modèen
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Marcos Alves aka Xeon3D
> www.xeon3d.info
>
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