Status of PPC Support in OpenDarwin

[beastlifeisgood]

Hello.
I am curious about the limitations of PowerPC support in the darwin
9.0 branch that you use. Does it still maintain PPC support?

Also, is anyone interested in porting Darwin 11.1.0's xnu back to
PowerPC? I think that the only reason Apple dropped support was
because there is a massive reorganization of the kernel between 10.5.8
and 10.7.

I am working on getting Darwin to run on the PS3 and reintroducing PPC
support in Darwin 11.1.0. What I have in store in the coming months is
awesome.

However the first step is porting Darwin 11.1.0 to PPC. Anyone
interested/make this a goal of open darwin?

[Tyson Key]

Hi,

We're currently offering x86 users (who are the priority target of the project) the choice between a vanilla Apple XNU kernel, and a Voodoo XNU kernel in the PureDarwin builds that are available, if I remember correctly. Officially, we're not focussing on PowerPC support - although I don't see why an interested person (such as yourself) couldn't attempt to shoehorn in support using old code, or otherwise attempt a brand new port for contemporary machines. 

That said, I'm certainly intrigued by your claims, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Tyson.

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[beastli...@gmail.com]

Thanks, have you guys documented the kernel? E.g. building etc. Because I'd like to use an IDE–making my life a lot easier. 

[probono]

http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/darwinbuild#TOC-xnu

2011/9/17 <beastli...@gmail.com>:

> Thanks, have you guys documented the kernel? E.g. building etc. Because I'd
> like to use an IDE–making my life a lot easier.

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