From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 15 13:38:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA18896 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:38:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (root@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA18821 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:38:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net) Received: (from bsdhack@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.7/8.8.3) id XAA07172 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 23:01:17 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199711152101.XAA07172@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: IDT processors? In-Reply-To: <11094.879118603@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 9, 97 03:36:43 pm" To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 23:01:16 +0200 (EET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > now, _that_ would be a port i'd like to see, freebsd on SGI platform. > Depends on how fast you're able to do the port, I guess! :) uh, people, we'd all die before _that_ day. =) (and i'm being _optimistic_) > Seriously, simply calling for a port to a new platform is a waste of > time since we've been asked, at one point or another, to port FreeBSD > to just about every architecture on the market today and we've even > been offered money to port to architectures like the UltraSPARC. yeah, i know, i was rather asking around if there's someone out there who's already doing/interested about it. i didnt mean it to be an average "do this for me" posting, even if it sounded that way... > alone on this topic unless they're also willing to do the work of > porting FreeBSD to a new architecture *and* be willing maintain it in i'd be more than happy to help, really, but it might take a while. what i'm saying, after there's _some_ sort of version, i hope i'm able to offer a platform where i can run it, and giving feedback how well it runs... with my skills, there's not much more i can offer, unfortunatelly. > Jordan mickey