| From: | Rudi Chiarito |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 13:57:32 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: SUSE 6.4 for PowerPC seems to be working ;-) |
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:28:49AM +0000, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> When can Amiga PowerPC card owners get a SDK for it? ;-)))
> For a german languaged installation manual see here:
That page mentions SuSe. AFAIK the upcoming Debian release (or is the
stable release from a couple of weeks ago? I can't remember right now) is
the first distribution that officially supports PPC Amigas, although I
seem to remember it might still require you to create a boot floppy
rather than boot from the CD. That would seem the easiest way, although I
haven't had any personal experiences.
> AFAIK the only thing needed would be some PPC translator for Elate and
> maybe a new platform isolation interface, but most if not all of the
> platform should be hidden anyway when running hosted on Linux.
As far as I know, Linux/PPC is big endian. So what would be needed is a
PPC translator and maybe some tweaks in the platform isolation interface,
if the current one for Linux depends on a little-endian architecture - it
might as well work as it is. Oh, what you need is also people to rebuild
the whole thing with the right parts and test it extensively. ;)