Ken Mays wrote: > Chris, > > Not lack of hardware, I think you mean the lack of SUPPORTED hardware. The > Pegasos ODW was replaced by the EFIKA hardware. The PS3 is out there in > masses and the Xbox360 which is **MY** preferred developer game console for > alternative PowerPC-based OSes . > > Can't argue with that. I just didn't have any of these till recently either :-) > The hardware crisis is talked about early in the game when the project > started. The Pegasos II ODW was the reference "open" platform, but not the > ONLY platform we asked to have supported. We wanted to support Apple and IBM > PowerPC hardware as well. > > Yet, SunLabs has been working on this with a small team of people (i.e. 2-3) > as resources were impacted awhile ago. We did discussed: > > Supported hardware proposed: > - Apple 32 and 64bit "NewWorld" hardware > - IBM Risc/6000, pSeries, POWER*, CHRP > - Genesi PegasosII, Efika 5200B/5121e-based solutions > > Which I will say the Efika MPC5200B platform (now $99 USD) is decent solution > after using it for about a year now. I think the Efika MPC5121e-based > platform is the new target platform (but I don't have one to play with). > > See: http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_sheet/MPC5121EFS.pdf?fpsp=1 > Interesting - I'll take a look at these. At that price it's probably cheaper than sorting out an emulator > So much to do..so little time. > > Always the case (for me anyway)
Chris > ~ Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------- > As mentioned by others previously, the lack of hardware has been my > barrier to entry. An emulation environment would help greatly in getting > people involved. > > Chris > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >
