[haiku-development] Re: PowerPC Development
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:56:02 +0100
On 16/02/2012 22:49, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
> On 16.02.2012 15:27, Axel Dörfler wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>> On 14.02.2012 06:42, Michael Manley wrote:
>>> I was wondering the status of the PowerPC port of Haiku. As I have a lot
>>> of PowerPC Related hardware (iMac G4, PowerBook G3 and G4), I am willing
>>> to develop on the PowerPC port. I do have knowledge of the PPC
>>> Architecture and will possibly help on anything needed to make this
>>> version bootable on the hardware I do have.
>>
>> Now, however, you might need to put in some effort to get the boot
>> loader and/or kernel to work again, I don't know.
>> Testing it would surely get you a better idea. I think the last one
>> that did so, and might have some additional
>> insight on the current state is Alexander a.k.a. kallisti5.
>
> Getting the Haiku bootloader working directly off a cd (by pressing
> command + C)
> (ex: booting haiku_unsupported-r43238-ppc-haiku-boot-cd-ppc.zip
> directly) is pretty bad atm, maybe a good place to start?
>
Getting QEMU to boot ppc never really worked, though the many recent
changes might have fixed this. It'd be really useful for dev.
François.
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