Re: Pegasos port status
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:50:41 -0500
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Hi Allen. :) Have you seen this: http://www.power.org/members/developers/downloads/genesi_pegasosppc The Pegasos schematics are there for download. You have to join as a FREE Developer Member first, but they are there and you can get them. http://www.power.org/join/devjoin/ Genesi just joined the Board of Directors of Power.org and there are a few new things about to happen. In the meanwhile, you are welcome to join these Developer Programs as well: http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php We would like to see more NetBSD participation (the hardware is free if you are approved) - especially for the EFIKA which will be used for this effort: http://www.power2people.org/ Best regards, R&B On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Allen Briggs wrote: > FWIW, I also have Pegasos box. I haven't had a chance to seriously > look at porting to it. I'll point out that it is much easier to > work from documentation than trying to reverse-engineer what other > people have done. I have run into several cases where open source > folks have written incorrect code--whether through misreading docs > or through having to guess when docs aren't available or easily > obtainable. While it's possible to get things "working", these > mistakes can lead to "inexplicable" behavior and kludges to "fix" > the problems. I'm not saying that would be the case here--just > that Matt's desire for the real docs is not unreasonable... > > Also FWIW, I've run into plenty of developer documentation that > was wrong, too. And a few places where schematics weren't updated, > too. So nothing's perfect, but even with a few errors here or > there, docs/schematics are far better than the lack of them. > > -allen > > -- > Use NetBSD! http://www.NetBSD.org/