Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 02:09:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co, kris@hub.freebsd.org, grog@lemis.com, kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) Message-ID: <199910070209.TAA22483@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006172244.37031L-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Oct 6, 99 05:24:08 pm
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> I don't remember that. But I do remember Jordan saying that even if it > should prove to not be a hoax (highly doubtful) it's inclusion in the tree > should still be given a lot of consideration. And then done, anyway, to iron out platform specific "gotchas" for platforms that the people with the power to say "no" actually _do_ care about. It doesn't matter that the machine has been called "obsolete" by elitists (processor snobs, actually); the source tree will "learn" portability lessons from any port that's integrated. Look at all the crap work that won't have to be done for Merced because of the Alpha port fixing the 64-bitness, and probably only a small amount of the other platform specific code, given that it's not really a totally alien bus structure or totally alien support chip structure for the machines which are currently supported. All ports are good, if they increase portability of the code. 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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