[haiku-development] Re: Porting Haiku to a current PowerPC hardware
- From: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:55:59 +0200
Hello,
Am 24.04.2010 um 20:52 schrieb Philippe Ferrucci:
I would like to offer the opportunity to give Haiku more visibility
in today computing market.
I am looking for someone to port Haiku to this PowerPC machine:
http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=2
And I'm willing to pay for such job! :-)
I know that some work have been done to port Haiku to PPC MACs so I
hope porting to this motherboard will not be too difficult.
I'm not taking either, though I'm one of those occasionally working on
the ppc Mac port. I guess that anyone considering your offer will need
a little more information on what's involved.
For instance, am I understanding correctly that the board does not
feature an IEEE 1275 Open Firmware [1]? It mentions UBoot [2] instead.
So it needs a completely new boot loader, duplicating the existing
unfinished efforts?
Is the 440ep a single-core CPU? I saw an 8-core e500ec [3] at Embedded
World and thought it would be interesting, but the pricing made that
much less so. ;)
Seriously, the problems we're facing are occasional kernel load
failures [4] as well as MMU problems at various boot stages [5, 6].
And QEMU w/OpenBIOS has been unable to emulate it. Nor is there any
graphics support yet that I'm aware of.
But I don't want to discourage anyone, these challenges are definitely
solvable since Linux runs on both Macs and 440 boards. :) There's even
a KVM for 440 [7], so it may be virtualizable.
Regards,
Andreas
[1] http://www.openfirmware.info/
[2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
[3] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P4080
[4] http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1048#comment:7
[5] http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5164
[6] http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5193
[7] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PowerPC
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