I gave them a try in an old G4 iBook running Debian, and all I got was an 
*"Illegal 
instruction"* message
Same result compiling the source files.
¿Any idea?


El martes, 3 de septiembre de 2013 21:53:06 UTC+2, Andrew Low escribió:
>
> If you're G4 Powerbook is running Linux - I think you _are_ the target 
> market :) 
>
> If your question was about getting a version running under OSX (on 
> PowerPC) that may require a bunch of code changes. If you want to try, 
> you're certainly welcome to go for it.
>
> We've also managed to convince the code to (mostly) compile/run on AIX. So 
> it's pretty flexible.
>
> You can grab binaries for PowerLinux from the Jenkins server 
> http://v8ppc.osuosl.org:8080/ - give it a try.
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 3:38:21 PM UTC-4, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>>
>> I know this isn't your target market, but does this mean I can get node 
>> running on my old G4 Powerbook?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Great work!
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2013, at 11:41AM, Andrew Low <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Andrew Low and I work for 
>>> IBM. I've been building runtime technology for almost 20 years, over that 
>>> time I've built Smalltalk VMs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
>>> IBM_VisualAge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge>), Java VMs (
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**IBM_J9<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_J9>),
>>>  
>>> and I'm now working on JavaScript runtimes (and this means Node.js too!)
>>>
>>> Since early this year I've been leading a small team porting V8 to 
>>> PowerPC. If you're keen to follow along all of our work it up on GitHub 
>>> https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc
>>>
>>> As most of you are aware, Node.js relies on V8 for it's javascript 
>>> runtime. This has been a barrier to bringing Node.js to platforms that 
>>> don't (yet) have a V8 port. Now that the V8 port to PowerPC is fairly 
>>> feature complete, we're able to bring Node.js up on Power Linux. You can 
>>> check the code out here: https://github.com/andrewlow/node - 
>>> specifically the branch "v0.10.16-release-ppc"
>>>
>>> We're planning on giving all of this code back to the community - it's 
>>> all there on GitHub now and licensed in the same manner as the original 
>>> project. So far there are only a handful of changes to the Node.js code.
>>>
>>> There is also a public Jenkins continuous integration server building 
>>> binaries: http://v8ppc.osuosl.org:8080/
>>>
>>> Limitations: For now it's only 32bit (but the binaries will of course 
>>> run just fine on 64bit systems). We're also stuck on the 0.10.x branch of 
>>> Node for the time being. We will be working towards removing these 
>>> limitations.
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