[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH] Attempts to build haiku on linux/ppc
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:29:14 +0200
On 2008-05-27 at 16:08:14 [+0200], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > That would be great - it has pretty much stalled for too long
> > > already!
> > > If you need any insights, feel free to ask. In a nutshell, the PPC
> > > port
> > > is still missing many arch_*() kernel functions (in src/system/
> > > kernel/
> > > arch/ppc). IIRC the next stopping point was missing PCI support (to
> > > be
> > > able to identify the boot volumes).
> >
> > Unless changes to the bus manager broke it in the meantime, PCI
> > should be
> > OK. The interrupt controller module I ported might be buggy, though.
> > Other
> > than that what prevented mounting the boot value were missing drivers
> > (either a NIC driver for network boot or a driver for disk access).
> > The
> > most immediate problem of the PPC port is to fix the gcc port, so
> > that it
> > can build the kernel again.
> >
>
> That was solved the other day, Travis found removing the -shared from
> linkhack.so target worked.
> It should be tested with other platforms though.
I'm personally a fan of fixing problems rather than working around them.
Obviously something is wrong with the PPC gcc/binutils.
CU, Ingo
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