Changeset c050399 in mainline

Timestamp:

2010-04-28T23:02:06Z (14 years ago)

Author:

Martin Decky <martin@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

13108f24

Parents:

c2ab3f4

Message:

remove support for PearPC
PearPC is totally unmaintained for almost 5 years and its implementation of OpenFirmware is utterly buggy and non-compliant
QEMU with OpenBIOS is the current state-of-the-art PowerPC simulator

Files:

• contrib/conf/pearpc.conf (deleted)
• kernel/doc/arch/ppc32 (modified) (1 diff)

kernel/doc/arch/ppc32

@@ -4 +4 @@
 ppc32 port is the fourth port of SPARTAN, originally written by Martin Decky.
 The goal is to support 32-bit PowerPC architecture.
-So far, it runs only in emulator.
 
 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
-        o no real hardware supported
+        o Apple iMac G4
 
 EMULATORS AND VIRTUALIZERS
-        o PearPC
+        o QEMU
 
 TOOLCHAIN REQUIREMENTS
         o binutils 2.16
-        o gcc 4.0.1, 4.1.0, 4.1.1
+        o gcc 4.0.1, 4.1.0, 4.1.1