Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:59:23 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rename to freebsd-powerpc? Message-ID: <3EC3C76B.4010808@liwing.de> References: <45D0C30C-86CC-11D7-8F56-0003937E39E0@mac.com> <1053006586.649.42.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net>
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On 5/15/2003 3:49 PM, Benno Rice wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 21:56, David Leimbach wrote: >> Well is the goal to support "all" PowerPC or just Macintosh? > > The goal is to be as generic as we can be. > >> There are a ton of VME PowerPC boards out there and some >> RS/6000s that might be able to run FreeBSD as well. > > Yep. The issue is getting someone with the time to do the work who has > access to that hardware. I have 2 IBM RS/6000 (pSeries) with 603e and 604 PowerPC processor and as I wrote I would be glad to help. I will not completely remove aix, because I need it for testing, but I'd love to see my favourite os running on those ibm machines :-) >> What is the goal of people on this list? If its just mac-powerpc >> perhaps that is the way to go? Of course if Apple actually releases >> a Mac based on PPC-970 [64 bit PPC CPU] then we might get more confusion >> with Mac-PowerPC. :) >> >> Technically I think PPC is fine, powerpc is better but it may not >> really be more specific :). > > And PPC is more specific? PowerPC is the name of the specification that > all of these processors follow, whether it's the 32-bit or 64-bit OEA > specifications or the weird variants like the IBM 4xx's they're all > called PowerPC. Since we have a driver in the system called ppc which > handles PC parallel port stuff, I've always made a concious effort to > refer to the platform as powerpc rather than ppc. It's also the name of > the directory in which the arch-specific code resides. > > The idea of the codebase is to support as many PowerPC platforms as we > can, so I think that's the right name for it. I know from Linux4PPC that the same boot cd which boots power macs boots my machines, too. So it should be possible to be generic :-) Cheers, Jens
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