[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:03:13 +0100 CET
> It would be a *massive* advert for Haiku to have it booting on the
> PS3. The story of Haiku booting on a PS3 would hit Slashdot, OSNews,
> Kotaku and a host of other sites. I don't know if that will get
> Haiku
> any more programmers, but it would definitely get lots of people
> reading about Haiku who wouldn't know about it otherwise.
I was hoping m68k port would do the same :P
> Right now the only issue that I can think of is 3D. As mentioned in
> another post the GPU is locked down by the hypervisor.
As if we had any working 3D support yet :D
Still, I don't like the idea much of being forced out of accessing the
real hardware, I don't cash for an hypervisor, I cash for the real
thing, dammit :p
> I am not skilled enough to do the port, but if some reading the list
> is (François?) but can't afford to buy a PS3 I will help out with
> cash.
Well I'm still busy with other stuff atm...
François.
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