From owner-freebsd-ppc Fri Dec 13 15:10:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0ED37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:10:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.jeamland.net (rafe.jeamland.net [203.18.243.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F2843E4A for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benno@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.9.203] (rtr1.snc.schools.net.au [203.2.135.22]) by mail.jeamland.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778277060A for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:21:18 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Free BSD and IBM J40/50 servers From: Benno Rice To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3DF93AA4.ED23D341@freebsd.org> References: <000001c2a20e$a9cd4880$79b7fea9@thresher> <3DF93AA4.ED23D341@freebsd.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VXCk1CF7Ajo6Mf1xrKOe" Organization: Message-Id: <1039746076.638.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 13 Dec 2002 13:21:16 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-VXCk1CF7Ajo6Mf1xrKOe Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:40, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Steve, >=20 > > Has anyone had any success porting BSD to either this platform or the > > RS/6000 43p 140 as I will probably taking delivery of examples of these > > in the new year and would be able to carry out testinf for any works in > > progress >=20 > The work to date has been PowerPC G3/G4 processors on Apple hardware. > There hasn't been any attempt to my knowledge to do an IBM POWER series > port. If it's PowerPC 601 or any of the 64-bit PowerPC chips it's somewhat outside of what we're aiming to support with this. I can easily see a powerpc64 port happening later on, but 601 is just too old and too different from the "normal" PowerPC variants. --=20 Benno Rice --=-VXCk1CF7Ajo6Mf1xrKOe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9+UQcXjRwWofFmQkRAh8HAJ97gU/ZwkIlqEcwsO9TG9Y0dC3cTwCggIxe u4eki/+pfBnj/hQSX5bcKC8= =mSSn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VXCk1CF7Ajo6Mf1xrKOe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message