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An effort was started some time ago to consolidate all internal documentation in the git tree. However, this was just an accumulation of files in various formats without any strucutre or way to browse it, which results in no one even knowing that we have docs here. This converts most of the files to restructuredtext and uses Sphinx to generate an HTML browsable user manual (with a table of content and a first attempt to put things in a global hierarchy). There are almost no changes to the documentation content in this commit (some obviously obsolete things were removed). The plan is to get the toolchain up and running to make these docs easily available, and only then see about improving the content. We can migrate some things off the wiki and website, and rework the table of contents to have some more hierarchy levels because currently it's a bit messy. Change-Id: I924ac9dc6e753887ab56f18a09bdb0a1e1793bfd Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/4370 Reviewed-by: Niels Sascha Reedijk <niels.reedijk@gmail.com>
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The PowerPC port
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PowerPC was the first non-x86architecture for which a port of Haiku was attempted. The initial
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target was the (then recently released) Mac Mini, but of course the BeBox was in everyone's mind
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as a possible target for this port.
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This port went as far as starting the kernel, but then difficulties in implementing the Mac Mini
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PCI bus driver stopped it.
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Later on, some work as done on adding support for the Sam460ex development board, after a donation
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of one to one of the Haiku developers.
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Recently, the lack of easily available and affordable PowerPC hardware has reduced interest in this
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port.
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Platform specific details
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.. toctree::
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/kernel/arch/ppc/bebox
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/kernel/arch/ppc/mac
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/kernel/arch/ppc/sam460ex
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