On 8/17/05, Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/16/05, Noah Yan <noah.yan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am interested in porting Solaris to powerpc, and starting looking at
> > > the loading code of solaris for powerpc.
> >
> > Right now the focus is on the GRUB boot loader.
> >
> > >
> > > In genunix repos, does any coding work really happen?
> >
> > Not yet. Soon. :-)
>
> As long as too few sources are available, porting would be not
> only a hard but nearly impossible job.
>
> We need to wait until things like crypt stuff anf the ATA driver
> are available in source.
>
>
J?rg,
let me disagree with you. Since we have nothing working right now
we have quite a load of code to write and test even _before_ we get
to crypto and ATA subsystem. Of course in a sense that we still
will not have a fully pledged distribution you are right and lack
of the basic stuff like the one you mentioned will prevent us
from declaring the job is done. But still one have to start walking
in order to get somewhere.
Regards,
Cyril
