Re: [retro] darwin/ppc status report

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 07:22:09PM +0200, Hauke Fath (SPG) wrote:
> On 2024-04-21 23:07, nia wrote:
> > A good test case for pkgsrc's legacy support.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Getting this far has taken lots of work. All in all, though,
> > considering this platform is 20 years old, and this is by some
> > definitions "bleeding edge software", a pretty impressive
> > show by pkgsrc.
> > 
> > More reading: https://www.NetBSD.org/~nia/tigersrc/
> 
> Awesome, thanks for the work and the write-up!
> 
> I am especially surprised python 3.10 still builds - back when I tried, I
> didn't get further than 3.7...

This is all the result of months of work, I think I spent about a day
on Python. MacPorts provided some clues.

> For those who run ppc Powerbooks: Get an msata- or m2-IDE adapter and flash
> storage. It makes for a world of difference over spinning rust.

I'm using UDMA 7 128gb compact flash cards. I had bad luck
with cheap mSATA adapters that didn't understand that IDE
has multiple modes, and some operating systems are picky.