Hello,
The Free Pascal Compiler team is proud to announce that the Free Pascal
Compiler has been selected to participate in IBM's Linux On Power
contest. The goal is to create a ****t for Linux running on PowerPC 64
bit processors. The current compiler already contains sup****t for Linux
running on 32 bit PowerPC's and there is already a ****t for x86-64, so
all the basics (PowerPC, Linux and 64 bit) are present. Nonetheless, the
****t will not be trivial (otherwise we would have done it ourselves
already :)
The ****t is part of their Tier 2 tasks, which means the prize for
accompli****ng the ****t is a ****ny new PowerMac with dual G5's running at
2 GHz, pre-installed as dual booting between Mac OS X and Linux/PPC64.
All ****ts will be judged by us (the Free Pascal team), and the first
person to submit an accepted ****t via the linuxonpower.com website will
win the prize. People from all over the world are elegible to enter the
contest, except for the unlucky souls living in Quebec.
More information available at http://www.linuxonpower.com/
Specific information about the Free Pascal ****t:
http://www.linuxonpower.com/challenges.php?view=217
Now get coding! And no whining about chicken-egg problems! (having no
G5, but wanting to complete the ****t in order to win a G5 :)
Jonas
PS: there's some information about places where you can get a
Linux/PPC64 account on the linuxonpower website.
PS2: we are of course willing to help with information about the
compiler, but the discussion will be limited to the fpc-devel mailing
list, so that everyone has access to the same information. Since we are
judges, we can obviously not participate in the contest ourselves.
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