[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 16:08:14 +0200 CEST

> > 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.

François.

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