From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 26 17:00:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 17:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f5.hotmail.com [207.82.250.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA25934 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 16:59:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from annatara@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 14747 invoked by uid 0); 27 Nov 1998 00:59:49 -0000 Message-ID: <19981127005949.14746.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.172.100.235 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 16:59:49 PST X-Originating-IP: [209.172.100.235] From: "Anand Natarajasundaram" To: scqdaf@globalserve.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port on PowerPC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 16:59:49 PST Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi >>--Anand Natarajasundaram wrote.. >> I have a PowerPC 603e based hardware. I intend to have FreeBSD running >> on it. Is there a FreeBSD port on PowerPC ? >--Dennis wrote > > What kind of PowerPC hardware are you using? A PowerMac or a PReP/CHRP >machine from someone like FirePower or Motorola? > I have a embedded 603e Compact PCI board. It has PCI bus No 0,1 In bus No : 1 7 Compact PCI slots reside. The board has ethernet, SCSI, IDE, ISA devices plus an onboard 16MB DRAM/EDO SIMM's and 512K cache,Flash,bootROM. >--Dennis wrote.. > If its a Mac, you have the option of MkLinux or LinuxPPC, provided your >machne is supported (basically, if its a 7200 or newer) > > If its a generic PPC-based PC, the only UNIX option I'm aware of is IBM's >AIX for PowerPC. > I have VxWorks, pSOS ported on it. Since it is PCI system I have option of MkLinux, LinuxPPC. I plan to have a BSD kernel on it. It seems NetBSD , OpenBSD have PPC ports. But I don't know whether they have drivers for the devices in my board. bye anand ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message