Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

[Dean Hamstead <dean@bong.com.au>]

> > > This is ooold news... I think Linus has been using the G5 as his main
> > > machine for about a year or so. I don't know about the impact of that
> > > for ppc64, but I think it's been about zero for ppc32 so far.
> >
> > As I recall (and I think maddog said this in a speech) the only reason why
> > Linus ported Linux to Alpha versus PPC was the fact that DEC got an Alpha
> > in his hands before he got the PPC machine.  Weird how things come full 
> > circle, Linus has a PPC machine and Alpha is just about dead.
>
>
> Linus is mostly using the G5, not really using it for developpement of
> ppc/ppc64 specific support, this is still in the hand of the good old
> team lead by Paul Mackerras :)

i was thinking also that its not the 'port' thats the problem but more 
the lack of specs to support peripherals. powerpc chips are open spec
i believe and IBM has an interest in the platform being stable in linux
but they dont give a rats about airport extreme or DRI etc.

which leads me into thinking that i cant see linus hacking airport
extreme or doing some big X development.

Dean