Is there any support for the Peg II PPC hardware (planned)?
Matthew Wilkinson
mat.wilkinson at kent.ac.uk
Thu Jan 26 01:54:20 PST 2006
On 25 Jan 2006, at 00:02, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:36:58 +0100
> Henrik Andersen <henke.andersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Darren!
>> I'm not a developer, but this has been up before so I'll jump in
>> anyway. Support for the Pegasos is not planned or worked on at the
>> moment. This is in part (or more likely only) because of the Pegasos
>> different implementation of OpenFirmware.
>
> On the other hand, this shouldn't deter people with strong enough
> motivation and access to the hardware.
> Anyone (given enough motivation and time) can learn how to
> implement the
> necessary code for a port to a new hardware platform.
> In this case, it isn't even a brand new platform, just different
> intialization stage and different hardware devices.
>
> No, I'm not saying that this is the easiest assignment a person can
> undertake.
> --
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
>
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I'm interested in helping out with the port, where do I start? I've
never had any experience with porting an OS before.
Thanks,
Matt
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