From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 22:08:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CFD106566B for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:08:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chmeeedalf@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C4A8FC14 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk36 with SMTP id 36so2578212qyk.13 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:08:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=HFaF4UlNE4I8oj18r//8VxV9vclgdXVeUEdA8PT7Rgg=; b=dmZU+8Htwsv7gotGLbOyZ+M6amkIf5xV+UjgY4zu3jK3Qgh7gOQMP4dl8rlPxRlMoZ ViqkGejuQktSFgwoLzxzxpUMaw9w0IQm01wgyRXnvNiwb6z8HF5tkdMiHHm9dTpR5oOZ BPnWTy3mEhKeLA+s93qs0YlWQdbBjpNPicwXg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:mime-version:subject :date:references:x-mailer; b=Wiw4S2ZLt5Q2KHIwpKWyBhGUKZCVXv81I1eMY14UBIt3Cr0k9OJ6oWxnNO0IfNa4Zt g/5ZSAqQ1DW8FF9R9H7HPP5ii1ntSIOAA+wZob9RkFYGXOHvf/i/bchOxeaBYzY5frJF wobLuyfxOKZu2VKo32gn950NuSY7rD9RfBCO4= Received: by 10.229.211.206 with SMTP id gp14mr1647480qcb.289.1297548488131; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:08:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from triad.knownspace (216-164-48-50.c3-0.gth-ubr1.lnh-gth.md.cable.rcn.com [216.164.48.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id nb15sm570076qcb.38.2011.02.12.14.08.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:08:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <0C52F832-ACAF-4A4D-BCCD-C34C83412BDE@gmail.com> From: Justin Hibbits To: Super Bisquit In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:08:04 -0500 References: <55213959-1A94-4F25-86CB-E502C61E3C6C@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: How does one minimize the base environment plus Xorg for lowend machines? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:08:09 -0000 On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Super Bisquit wrote: > I haven't done both parts of the next question in a while. Would I > do the make buildworld and make buildkernel with an output directory > similar to the same command used in jails and, does it need to be > native cpu platform or can it be built on same processor class: i.e > G3 or can a G4 be used instead? > > > Many thanks for the suggestion. As long as you don't specify a CPUTYPE, or specify the compatible CPUTYPE in src.conf/make.conf, you should be fine. > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Justin Hibbits > wrote: > On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Super Bisquit wrote: > > The G3 B&W has been volunteered as part of an effort to use a > Lombard- The > laptop has the same cpu- as a device for the visually impaired. I'm > currently running a build of orca and attempting to lessen the build > by > removing unnecessary build options. > The release is the 9.0-CURRENT recently announced on the mailing list. > The attempt of porting emacspeak to the machine failed when using an > old > port on a OpenBSD install. NetBSD was difficult to boot due to not > knowing > the proper boot commands. (If someone knows how to do this or can > show me > what I did wrong, I'll be glad to read.) > Tiny BSD seems to be optimized for i386 processors. Can this be used > on a > Lombard or a B&W with Xorg and the r128 driver? > One of the light "Box" desktop environments can be used or the cwm > from > OpenBSD and orca setup to run along with it. > > Take a look at src.conf(5). I read through that then went crazy > with the WITHOUT_* options in my /etc/src.conf, to disable as much > as I could for my G4 MDD. > > - Justin > - Justin