Re: PowerPC port

[Peter Bruin]

Quoting Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>:

> > The PowerPC port of the Hurd that I'm working on is now partially
> > working; I've compiled bash, textutils and fileutils, most of which
> > runs. Ext2fs runs in read-only mode, but often crashes in writable
> > mode. Exec crashes when trying to run shell scripts. There are many other
> > bugs, but at least some of it works.
> 
> That sounds great!  I am frankly amazed you could get this far without
> asking us for a lot of help.  Please post all your code asap so we can
> start getting it integrated and have other people work on it.

Most changes I had to make were either processor-related or had to do with the
differences between GNUMach and OSF Mach (which already existed on the PowerPC,
so that I didn't have to worry about getting Mach to work). And _I_ was amazed
that I didn't have to change anything in the Hurd code (except for the GNU vs.
OSF Mach things)!

Peter Bruin
pjbruin@dds.nl