Let's just end this discussion altogether. The first person to pick up a machine and do any work with it gets to decide what the target is.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > >> Hi people! >> >> It's been a long time since I've seen any discussion of the Solaris >> PPC port - is it as dead as it was sounding? Well, I wanted to be >> sure everyone is aware of the Power Station now available through >> Fixstars. That company bought Yellow Dog, and so they offer a system >> now that is essentially an upgraded G5 tower (quad 2.5 Ghz G5) with >> awesome expandability. It's the perfect target for a Solaris PPC >> port, just as the PS3 remains a decent target. And this system is >> "open," according to their site. >> >> I figure it's a great excuse to revive the port and the perfect >> target to aim for. Thoughts? Does it depend on getting them to fund >> the effort, supply a machine or two for development? > > The single biggest problme is that the current codebase ( almost a year > old now or worse ) was very very specific to the now long dead Genesi PPC > workstation based on the Pegasos motherboard. > > Any new hardware would require extensive work. > > > Dennis Clarke > > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
