Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 10.09.2009 09:12, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > >> in the progress of restructuring coreboot to work with CBFS, Kconfig and >> other new features, we basically broke the PowerPC boards. Since none of >> us has any of the supported hardware available for testing, and there is >> no real reason to use coreboot on PowerPC processors (there are fine >> bootloaders, like u-boot), we have been discussing to drop the PowerPC >> port completely if nobody is willing to step up and revive it. >> > > I remember some people talking about MIPS64 support for coreboot, and > having _working_ PowerPC support in coreboot might help us to keep the > general coreboot design mostly architecture-independent. Unfortunately, those people never even showed up on the mailing list to ask questions, so I doubt it's ever going to happen. > However, since > PowerPC support is essentially untestable without supported hardware, we > don't even know if it is (or was) broken and thus it serves no purpose > except holding development back. > It compiles, but it basically can not work as it is now, sadly.
> Drop it unless someone has the hardware and the skills to at least keep > PowerPC support working with some help from others. In case someone > magically appears, we can still dig up the old code from svn. > > Full ack. Stefan -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
