The thing is not hardware issue here, (we have lots of available, PowerMac, ODW, EFIKA), it is mainly we do not have yet a vendor that are mass manufacture powerpc desktop/server machine with a reasonable price. This makes the projects losing the interest from the community.
I support what Tom mentioned and are doing right now: make port on the chrp (ODW, PowerMAC) working right now. most of us cannot help than just thinking of/discussing the hardware issue here. But it is the key factor to drive the port. The best place I can come up is power.org and I post something there. http://www.power.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1215 , support and have your related comments there! The community involvement is very important. yet it is hard to happen. most of the project leaders is sitting on top advising with little benefits at all. On Feb 3, 2008 8:10 AM, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Well, this leads us up to Feb 15th. So, after that the things that are of > interest is if we take Shawn's advice and review a Sony PS3 port. We could > review the reference board of the PegasosPPC or a remake of it. There is also > the Efika 5200B evaluation board. > > It was very nice for Sun Labs to work on such a project in their spare time - > and for Genesi-USA for hardware support. We learned a lot from their business > venture and PowerPC hardware challenges. This leaves hope for a lot of other > interesting projects in the future. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >
