Re: Status of the ppc port

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Peter Bruin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started working on the PowerPC port again, and there's definitely
> been some progress.  The Hurd boots to the multiuser login shell, and
> most servers seem to work (not storeio and pfinet, currently).  ext2
> file systems are now also writable.

this sounds great!

> There are of course many bugs and
> deficiencies left, but so far it looks promising.  I've cross-compiled
> bash, coreutils, and grep.  What would be a good idea to do next?  I
> was thinking of cross-compiling binutils and gcc, which would be
> useful for compiling more programs as well as testing/bug-hunting.

when storeio and pfinet work (how do you use it without storeio?), it'd be
interesting to bootstrap debian and start building debian packages of the
utils. besides what you have, we basicaly need perl, sed, make, gawk and
g++ for that.

when you got these, could you put a base system tarball somewhere
for download?

and if you can offer access to a box running GNU on powerpc, that'd be
realy nice, too (i don't have any powerpc here)

-- 
Robert Millan