From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 13 05:49:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA20452 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 05:49:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA20433; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 05:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: from section05 (morse.sarnoff.com [130.33.10.158]) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA23973; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:48:22 -0400 Received: by section05 (SMI-8.6/SECTION05-Client) id IAA18733; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:48:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:48:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@morse To: Douglas Carmichael cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? In-Reply-To: <199710102301.SAA00400@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Douglas Carmichael wrote: > Could it be done by: > 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) to PowerPC > 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux) So run it slow under emulation when native-mode linux is available? what's the point? If it won't run as the kernel I can't see any reason to do this. > What would be a good name for this project? > MkFreeBSD, FreeBSD/PPC, FreeBSD/MK? Hmmm, we have netbsd/ppc, linux/ppc, and I assume openbsd/ppp. What does freebsd add? esp. when the last power-pc-based computers have been designed? ( the next generation of ppc will be in your car's engine, not on your desk. Thank You Know Who for that one). You're not losing much by optimizing for the pentium. At the rate we're going, it's the only architecture out there (anyone see that the Alpha is probably dead?) ron