[haiku-development] Re: Dev on OS X / PPC

  • From: "Duane Ryan" <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:31:07 -0500

Oh, I just wrote a program that used the existing code and libhfs or
whatever to make a bootable image. And my dev machine is at home, two weeks
away... sorry.

Duane


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:14 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > > Assuming you have the buildtools checkout at the same top level
> > > > dir
> > > > as
> > > > haiku, otherwise adjust the path to buildtools as needed. This
> > > > should
> > > > build you a cross compiler that you can then use to build Haiku
> > > > itself. There's partial PPC work in the kernel but it hasn't
> > > > really
> > > > been maintained with all the kernel changes that have been made,
> > > > though I believe it does still build.
> > >
> > > In case you're looking for existing PPC code, it's spreaded over
> > > the
> > > code in:
> > > src/system/boot/platform/openfirmware/
> > > src/system/kernel/arch/ppc
> > >
> > In two weeks, I can clean up the work I did (to get it partially
> > booted) and
> > mail off a patch. Until then, I'm busy with school.
>
> What did you do exactly ?
> I already did several changes to it recently to create a boot CD and
> COFF loader, though QEMU is currently very broken to test them.
> Could you at least post the diff here for review so we avoid doing the
> same thing twice ?
>
> François.
>
>

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