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The PowerPC port

PowerPC was the first non-x86architecture for which a port of Haiku was attempted. The initial target was the (then recently released) Mac Mini, but of course the BeBox was in everyone’s mind as a possible target for this port.

This port went as far as starting the kernel, but then difficulties in implementing the Mac Mini PCI bus driver stopped it.

Later on, some work as done on adding support for the Sam460ex development board, after a donation of one to one of the Haiku developers.

Recently, the lack of easily available and affordable PowerPC hardware has reduced interest in this port.

Platform specific details

Notes on a possible BeBox Haiku port

Bootloader

references

QEMU target

The Apple Macintosh port

The Sam460ex Haiku port

U-Boot commands

no-fdt no-initrd

with FDT and tgz as initrd

for environment

TODOs

Other ports

PowerPC information

Classic

Book-E

ePAPR

amcc 4x0

Freescale 440

FDT

Sam440 dts

OpenFirmware framebuffer