[ros-kernel] Different Hardware Architectures

[mccall at h2o.demon.co.uk]

alphax86 at alltel.net wrote:
> > I currently have a few different Macintosh PowerPC machines 
> > so I am unable to run the OS at the moment, but I was 
> > wondering wondering how portable the ReactOS kernel is to 
> > different hardware architectures?
> 
> The problem is getting the compiler to generate proper PowerPC code to
> actually compile the kernel and other components.  Eric and I worked on this
> some time ago, but never got it to completely work.
> 
> So if you can get MingW to spit out correct PPC code, then the battle is
> already half won.

Can you not just use gcc under Linux on PPC to compile the code?

Thanks,

Andrew McCall