Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?
Hi there,
Yes, that's right, there are new PPC hardware. Look at the following pages:
http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/x1000.html
http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/sam.html
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewforum.php?f=35
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewforum.php?f=52
These pages offer new kernels and distributions for the A-EON AmigaOne
X1000, for the ACube Sam440ep-flex, and for the ACube Sam460ex.
Additional is an optimal version of SuperTuxKart 0.8/0.8.1 for Linux ppc
with AltiVec available:
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2074
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1845
Rgds,
Christian
Hello,
> we are essentially orphans of the architecture. Again, would anybody
else be
> interested in addressing the current problems that PowerPC seems to
have?
Note that there are PPC users out there you might don't think of.
Two companies (links below) build PPC hardware primarily targeting
AmigaOS users but we are also interested by Linux. It means that we
are also helping keeping the PPC world alive.
What I wanted to say is that your work is not wasted and it's
appreciated. We also helped by adding hardware support in the kernel
tree.
One thing that would require more work is the support of the Uboot
firmware + Parthenope boot loader. It seems that everybody thinks the
PPC world uses OpenFirmware + yaboot :-/
About AmigaOS: http://www.amigaos.net
ACube Systems: http://www.acube-systems.biz/
Aeon Technology: http://a-eon.com/
Latest activity on PPC kernels:
http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6206&forum=10
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