[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH] Attempts to build haiku on linux/ppc

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:02:04 +0200 CEST

> Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > PS. I'm doing PowerPC/Cell coding for a living (in particular
> > AltiVec/SPU optimizations, incl. a library with altivec optimized
> > libc replacement functions, 3d, math stuff, etc) and I'd gladly
> > help
> > in the ppc port of Haiku, it will take me some time to understand
> > its
> > internals though :/
>
> 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).

Well at least we managed with Travis to successfully build an image
before you broke the build :D

But yeah at least the TLS init is not done as I saw.

François.

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