Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 15:36:43 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: mika ruohotie <bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net> Cc: jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee), perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, freebsd@atipa.com, cmott@srv.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDT processors? Message-ID: <11094.879118603@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Nov 1997 22:54:43 %2B0200." <199711092054.WAA17476@shadows.aeon.net>
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> why would anyone want to use anything else than r10000? > > now, _that_ would be a port i'd like to see, freebsd on SGI platform. > > how likely is it? Depends on how fast you're able to do the port, I guess! :) 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. Finding the people who have both the ability and the time to do this, however, is a lot harder and I wish that people would simply leave us 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 the tree for some reasonable number of years afterwards. Otherwise, don't waste our time in a frivolous discussion of something which can't and won't happen without such volunteer labor being available. Jordan
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