Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 02:04:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) Message-ID: <199910070204.TAA22371@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006165834.37031I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Oct 6, 99 05:09:24 pm
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> > For that matter, NetBSD runs on iMacs (PPC); Doug Ambrisko uses > > netbooting to boot them up occasionally around here. > > > > Come to think of it, Whistle has rather an "in" with I.B.M. for > > things like RS/6000 and other equipment as well, these days, > > seeing as I.B.M. owns us... 8-). > > > > PPC and 68xxx are whole different worlds. PPC port would definately be > nice. Esp. one supporting a wide range of different PPC processors > (within the limits that these have MMU, etc.) I already have a FreeBSD from 3 years ago that runs on a Motorolla Powerstack, not that that's any big deal, now that there are NetBSD ports to PPC, and no one is using PPCBug to boot things anymore. Jack Vogel had a FreeBSD 1.1.5 that ran SMP on a 4 processor SPARC box (4.5 years ago); he also had the original Intel SMP stuff running 4 years ago (I have his patches against the 17 Oct 1995 tree snapshot; these formed the original basis of the FreeBSD SMP work when they were reseurrected by people with commit priviledges). Mostly, until some people with pull regarding the source tree organization came on board and shoved the alpha port down "some peoples" throats, the source tree just wasn't organized correctly for non-Intel ports to be integrated properly, so they have languished. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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