[haiku-development] Re: [haiku-commits] haiku: hrev46863 - headers/private/kernel/arch/arm
- From: Jonathan Schleifer <js-haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:03:08 +0100
Am 14.02.2014 um 21:07 schrieb Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
> Pretty exactly 8 years ago I had the Haiku kernel net boot on my PPC Mac mini
> up to the point where it couldn't mount the boot volume. IIRC all that was
> missing to boot it up to the point where it would load the initial shell was
> 1. fixing the openpic module and 2. implementing/porting a network driver.
> The current status (disregarding recent breakage) is that it boots to the
> same or an earlier point on some more hardware. IOW there hasn't been any
> actual forward progress in 8 years. So the sad truth is: The port is dead.
That only means that nobody came along in those 8 years interested enough to
make it work. To be honest, this is on my TODO, as I still have PowerBook here
that I really like, but that's missing an OS. Would there be no code at all to
start with, I would not consider doing it at all, but since there already is
code, it's on my TODO. And I know someone else is also considering making it
boot on a PowerBook.
> Unless there's an at least moderately active maintainer for an incomplete
> port it won't go anywhere.
Yes, but keeping it in tree makes it much easier to find an active maintainer
;).
PS: Moving this discussion to devel on purpose, as this is not about this
specific commit anymore for a long time already ;).
--
Jonathan
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