Re: Pegasos port status

[Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck <bbrv%genesi.lu@localhost>]

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
>
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