Subject: Re: Pegasos port status
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Acereda_Maci=E1?= <jacereda@gmail.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/17/2006 20:53:55
Allen Briggs wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:09:45AM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
>>hope of it ever working, and the only solution is to Open Source it
>>as Allen wants?
>
>
> Umm.. Do you mean me? I don't recall asking for that. As long
> as it works well enough, I don't have a problem with it being closed
> source. And I pointed out that it worked well enough for both
> MorphOS and for Linux on the Pegasos II that I have here. I know
I don't know about MorphOS, but I'm afraid we're comparing apples and
oranges here. Linux just uses OF to discover devices, ofppc OTOH relies
on OF for things like accessing the hard disk or the ethernet. ofppc
thus needs far better OF support.