> Jennifer Pioch wrote: >> I wonder what is the real status of the powerpc project? Is it still >> alive? Is the current SVN finally working on QEmu or MAC hardware? > > Yes, it is still alive, but with the ending of various contracts at SunLabs, > manpower is at a minimum so any help the community could provide would be > appreciated. > > Guy Shaw does continue work fpr a week or two longer at Sun Labs, and he's > making substantial and steady progress of late. We're currently in the guts > of > libc running init, which isn't quite a shell prompt but isn't unreachably > far > from one, either. > > For the sake of progress, we've decided to continue towards reaching a > prompt on > the ODWs as once we get over that hurdle it's much easier to try and reach > the > same point on other hardware or on emulated systems. > > I've written a PowerPC disassembler as part of the work that needs to be > done to > get kmdb to work on PPC, which, once functional, will should help make it > easier > to progress in the future. > > Tom Riddle is still active in the project as a contributor external to Sun > as is > Brian Horn, and I assume Guy Shaw will also continue on a time available > basis > once his Sun Labs contract ends. > > But the bottom line is we need the community to step up and help out as much > as > possible if the project is to survive and thrive. > > William Kucharski > william.kucharski at sun.com >
Without the correct reference hardware that will be very difficult. - Dennis Clarke
