Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:16:46 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: platforms@FreeBSD.org, dyson@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/MIPS anybody Message-ID: <199611300546.QAA25227@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <E0vThEF-0002fP-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Nov 29, 96 09:40:39 pm"
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > Are there people other than myself that are interested in getting FreeBSD > running on MIPS machines? They made a bunch of different ones: DECstations, > ARC BIOS PCs, SGI boxes, old pre SGI-MIPS hardware, Sony's NEWS and likely > a dozen others that I've not been able to recall. I have an ARC BIOS MIPS > PC that I'd love to have FreeBSD running on, but don't really want to do > the MIPS port by myself. Anybody else out there with disk space to burn, > and old MIPS hardware? You know about me already, so this is just for general reference; I have a couple of old Mips (BE) systems and documentation of varying degrees and an IPC if the FreeBSD-sparc people are interested. What strikes me as the biggest real problem is the highly x86-optimised VM, and along with that perhaps the blurring of MI/MD code in the FreeBSD kernel. I've been studying the NetBSD code for a little while now, and it strikes me just how much of the VM seems to be replicated from one architecture to the next. Is this really necessary? How much of the FreeBSD VM is actually x86-specific, and how much could reasonably be moved out and reused by other architectures? > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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