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