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Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20658584 ht

by jsnell 6y ago

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20658584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20658584 Is the project still alive? There's no news for over 4 years.

rdpintqogeogsaa 6y ago
The mailing list[0] has been trucking along. Not with a lot of force, but at least one post per month. [0] https://lists.j-core.org/pipermail/j-core/ https://lists.j-core.org/pipermail/j-core/
cbmuser 6y ago
Yes, the first Turtle Boards have been delivered and kernel support on SH has been improving here and there. I‘m Debian‘s sh4 maintainer and I have done quite a lot to keep the port alive and improve it.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  > I‘m Debian‘s sh4 maintainer and I have done quite a lot to keep the port alive and improve it. Neat! What's your reason for doing this? Just a fan of retro architectures, or something else?
  - cbmuser 6y ago
    Just for fun and for educational purposes. I‘m maintaining most unofficial architectures in Debian that are part of „Debian Ports“.
    - sitkack 6y ago
      You should do an AMA. What does that entail? What skillset does one need? How do you connect with your users? The ones with the weird hardware?
- pantalaimon 6y ago
  Nice! Are there still plans for J3/J4?
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - cbmuser 6y ago
    The J-Core people are planning to release a J4 CPU, but I don’t know when that will happen. I just received my Turtle Board with J2 and will give it a go how far I will get with that.
freemint 6y ago
I'm in contact with the company which open sourced the J-Core family and of processors. They have much in the pipeline they want to open source. However they just haven't found the time to open source the next stuff since they need to clean it up before release and don't just want to occasionally dump a tarbal but provide a full versioned history of their repository.

by jsnell 6y ago

rdpintqogeogsaa 6y ago

The mailing list[0] has been trucking along. Not with a lot of force, but at least one post per month. [0] https://lists.j-core.org/pipermail/j-core/ https://lists.j-core.org/pipermail/j-core/

cbmuser 6y ago

Yes, the first Turtle Boards have been delivered and kernel support on SH has been improving here and there. I‘m Debian‘s sh4 maintainer and I have done quite a lot to keep the port alive and improve it.

MaxBarraclough 6y ago
> I‘m Debian‘s sh4 maintainer and I have done quite a lot to keep the port alive and improve it. Neat! What's your reason for doing this? Just a fan of retro architectures, or something else?
- cbmuser 6y ago
  Just for fun and for educational purposes. I‘m maintaining most unofficial architectures in Debian that are part of „Debian Ports“.
  - sitkack 6y ago
    You should do an AMA. What does that entail? What skillset does one need? How do you connect with your users? The ones with the weird hardware?
pantalaimon 6y ago
Nice! Are there still plans for J3/J4?
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- cbmuser 6y ago
  The J-Core people are planning to release a J4 CPU, but I don’t know when that will happen. I just received my Turtle Board with J2 and will give it a go how far I will get with that.

freemint 6y ago

I'm in contact with the company which open sourced the J-Core family and of processors. They have much in the pipeline they want to open source. However they just haven't found the time to open source the next stuff since they need to clean it up before release and don't just want to occasionally dump a tarbal but provide a full versioned history of their repository.