OpenBeOS on Pegasos?

[the_leander]

I've seen a few comments on this but tbh I can't find anything substantial on the net about it beyond that.
Anyone here know anything??

Also would BeOSr5Pro for PPC run on a peggy?

[the_leander]

First NewOS will be ported to Pegasos (by Travis Geiselbrecht; beos kernel developer) and when it's
finished Axel Dörfler will use these changes and
port OpenBeOS.

Great stuff, I've met Axel once or twice... he's nuts but he knows his stuff like few others do.

Now has anyone tried running BeOS r5 Pro for PPC on a peggy??

[the_leander]

With HEAVY modification, yes. Not much point though.

How much is heavy? :-D

Have you spoken to Yellowtab about porting Zeta to the Pegasos? They have the original Be source, so a port should be easy I think.

Now that would (for me at least) make the Peggy a must buy system hehe, my current lot is quite good but there are some problems with newer Durons and sound/video syncing under the present (and beta) media kits...

[the_leander]

Without the source code. That's pretty heavy I guess!

I know that PPC BeOS is capable of using G3's (though not sure about G4's) and that the A1/peg use a ppc implimentation of a via north/southbridge (iirc on the latter point) which is one that BeOS (on the x86 side) can use, though onboard sound chips are something of a hit and miss thing atm... especially VIA based stuff.

But I'm definately with you on the whole Zeta for peggy thing, I was just hoping I could convince the missus that getting one now would allow me to get one sooner if R5 ppc worked on it already lol.

[the_leander]

Why don'tyou have a go at hacking it to work on a peg? If you get the source for the x86 DMA beos driver and port that to PPC, then that would take care of some of the southbridge stuff I think. That would be a start.

Because I don't own a copy of BeOS r5 Pro, becuase I don't have the better part of a grand to get a full settup, my missus would kill me if I spent that much on a theory.

Also I'm working on porting XChat to BeOS atm which is just a case of recompiling gtk2 for use under BeOS and then running the makefile.  Programming isn't my forte (being dyslexic can be a pain at times, like learning languages).

[the_leander]

At BeGeistert the guys tried to get R5 booted via Boch and it got to the end of the boot sequence but couldn't open a screen

Lack of a driver, no doubt if they had gone into the boot options menu they could have selected a vesa mode to get a screen up.