From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 18:18:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.visi.com (tele.visi.com [209.98.98.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192C91517D; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mestery@visi.com) Received: from isis.visi.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by mail-out.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E623B1F88D; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:18:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by isis.visi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04933; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:18:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: isis.visi.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:18:28 -0500 (CDT) From: To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jamie Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: m68k Support in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I'd say that's a question for Grant Stockly, the person mentioned in > > green's web-cited message. It's certainly not part of FreeBSD and > > whether it ever will be is a matter still subject to debate. > > Isn't it more a question of whether a proper cross-build system will > be available within the time frame that m68ks aren't completely obsolete? > Hey wait a second! I have a wonderful HP Apollo 400 Series with a 68030 at 50MHz that is so impressive looking friends and family stare in awe at it.:) Seriously, it runs NetBSD, and is a great xterm (19" black and white monitor). I assume mac's and amigas with m68k's are just as useful. -- Kyle Mestery | StorageTek's Storage Networking Group mestery@visi.com | http://www.freebsd.org/ mestery@netwinder.org | http://www.netwinder.org/ Protect your right to privacy: www.freecrypto.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message