On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 23:59 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 09 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I'm not sure at all that I will continue maintaining linux support on x86 > > based Macs. I'm not really motivated at this point. > > Ok, the next question then: are you still motivated to maintain the PPC > based Macs or did you loose the interest given the recent announcement of > migration to x86?
I'm still there for those guys. Heh, I have plenty of them and they work fairly well for my needs today :) Besides, I still work for IBM doing PowerPC linux stuff. > I wouldn't like to be an orphan in this area and, due to monetary reasons, > I think that I will still keep my iBook 2 (Late 2001) and my old PowerMac > 9500/180MP that I just upgraded with a recent donation of a G3 card. > > I think that while I can contribute to things in userspace (perhaps in very > high level languages), kernelspace is really not the place where I know > anything about. > > This doesn't mean that I can't learn how to program in kernelspace, but > absorbing the ever-changing data structures used in Linux is quite time > consuming (and I thank you for keeping up with that) and right now I have > (for work reasons) to spend my time in other things (and things have been > quite hectic here to the point were my health is not in its prime, to use > an understatement). > > What we could have is a project to clone BenH. Or maybe he being paid by > IBM to give training on how the kernel works and what are the intrinsic > things regarding the PowerPC architecture that are worth noting for the > development of the platform. :-) It would be definitely useful for others to start grasping a bit about how the PowerMac hardware works ;) I could use help in many places there. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
