Haiku PowerPC compatibility
This is a table that was posted as an article by kallisti5. I have moved it here because as an article it is incomplete, but the information can still be useful to others.
| Date | Machine | Processor | Memory | Revision | Status | Notes |
| 11/2009 | Apple QuickSilver | PowerPC G4 (7450) 867Mhz | 1GB | r33991 | Bootloader boots, finds Haiku root partition on USB stick, jump into kernel fails | - |
| 11/2009 | Apple PowerBook Bronze | PowerPC G3 (750) 333Mhz | 192MB | r33991 | Bootloader boots, finds root partition on CD, jump into kernel fails | Bootloader does not see USB drives. |
| 11/2009 | qemu-system-ppc | qemu emulated cpu | 256MB | r33991 | Bootloader will boot with modifications but not draw menu properly | openbios-ppc does not support the needed functionality to boot at the moment. OF /cpus/ is not implemented well enough by openbios. |
| 11/2009 | gxemul -e g3 | gxemul emulated G3 cpu | 256MB | r33991 | Bootloader will not boot. | OF is not emulated well enough to boot at the moment. |
Comments
Re: Haiku PowerPC compatibility
I have a PowerMac 7200. It was compatible with BeOS PPC. Is there at Alpha release for Haiku PPC? Should I bother trying to boot on this Mac?
Regards,
Andrew
Re: Haiku PowerPC compatibility
There is a PPC image that is made monthly, it can be found here: http://haiku-files.org/ppc/
By the sounds of it, it won't go far; but people testing these less common architectures is always a good thing.