Re: ppc

[Marco Gerards]

address@hidden writes:

> I am currently working on the Hurdppc project
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hurdppc). One step of the project
> is to port the OSKit to the powerpc architecture. The port is most
> done now. Then we will adapt osfmach to use the OSKit. It includes the
> boot support.

Perhaps this is a bit off-topic, but what is the status of the hurdppc
project?

About GRUB: PUPA is what you need, like other people on this list
already told you.  I'm willing to work on this, actually I already
started with some stuff.  This includes the PPC port when the PC
version works. Barry deFreese is also interested in a PPC port.

Please be warned, I don't have as much time as I used to have.  Being
ill and having a lot of school work means less time for hacking. :(

Anyway, around Christmas I should have some time.  We can even work on
this together, or you can continue the hurdppc work and wait for me.

> So i am going to extend the multiboot standard taking care about ppc
> specifics. Once we get multiboot images, would be great to use GRUB to
> load our multiboot Mach kernel. So i assume to port GRUB to ppc is
> necessary. I am very interested on your comments about:

[...]

> - A GRUB ppc port... ¿some other port has beed done? ¿What parts of
>   the bootloader are affected? ...

If we use the Open Firmware client interfaces it won't be difficult
(compared to the PC implementation for example).  

> PD: I am now to this mailing list. Hello all :)

Welcome. :)

Thanks,
Marco