Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:29:18 +1000 From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "D.M.P." <gryph@mindless.com>, andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM, kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) Message-ID: <19991007122917.A83921@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199910070144.SAA21696@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 01:44:37AM %2B0000 References: <37FAD45F.9A04C962@mindless.com> <199910070144.SAA21696@usr09.primenet.com>
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On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 01:44:37AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Don't count 68k's out just yet. There's quite a few Performa and > > Quadra systems still in use as firewall boxes or low-traffic mail > > servers. Just as one would use a 486 for the same jobs with FreeBSD. > > > FWIW: > > Name: Palm Vx > Availability: October 4 > Cost: $449 (http://www.palm.com/products/palmvx/index.html) > RAM: 8MB > Network: iRDA > Processor: 68328 <-- Note > Keyboard: Serial (KeySync Palm Keyboard DKP62, $69.00) > > This is enough memory to run a 68x FreeBSD on a Palm Pilot. For embedded work, m68k and i386 are still useful. I have local changes to the FreeBSD makefiles to cross build to various targets, including m68k, PPC and sparc. I hope to commit the cross-build changes after David O'Brien reviews the egcs/gcc makefile restructure. Now that I am working for a client with lots of Sparc machines and that they have given me secure access to these outside hours, I can (finally) contribute to FreeBSD/Sparc. I guess that sparc and m68k FreeBSD ports will be like the alpha was - people won't contribute until some of the initial (no-brain) work is done. Unlike the alpha port, though, using a NetBSD kernel for bootstrap purposes is not required. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ john.birrell@opendirectory.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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