Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:16:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) Message-ID: <199910052116.OAA17594@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991005204642.37031F-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Oct 5, 99 08:54:14 pm
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> > It wasn't that long ago that I began to think about the fact that Apple > > had contacted the FreeBSD folks (-core, I think) about including some > > parts into Mac OS X. For some reason, I thought about the possiblity of > > porting FreeBSD to the "Mac" platform and was suddenly enlightened. > > However, if Mac OS X doesn't run on 68K machines, I see no reason why we > > can't ask for a little help in porting... > > > > Of course, I'm one to speak. The only Mac I own doesn't work. > > Look in the archives of FreeBSD-sparc on when (and how) to ask a > commercial entity for help. > > The demand for freebsd that runs on 68x machines is probably low to very > low. Especially has NetBSD has been available for some time and FreeBSD > doesn't (AFAIK) support VME yet. NetBSD runs fine on my 68040 HP box. And binaries will run across the HP/Amiga/Macintosh platforms, no problems. I think a 680x0 FreeBSD port would be a neat thing; you could easily leverage the NetBSD work for most of it. For that matter, NetBSD runs on iMacs (PPC); Doug Ambrisko uses netbooting to boot them up occasionally around here. Come to think of it, Whistle has rather an "in" with I.B.M. for things like RS/6000 and other equipment as well, these days, seeing as I.B.M. owns us... 8-). 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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