From owner-freebsd-platforms Fri Oct 10 15:58:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA16374 for platforms-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:58:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from dcarmich.pr.mcs.net (dcarmich.pr.mcs.net [204.95.63.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA16368; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcarmich@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net) Received: (from dcarmich@localhost) by dcarmich.pr.mcs.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00400; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:01:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Douglas Carmichael Message-Id: <199710102301.SAA00400@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> Subject: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:01:35 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Could it be done by: 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) to PowerPC 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux) 3) Making the whole "world" except the kernel and libraries from FreeBSD/i386. What would be a good name for this project? MkFreeBSD, FreeBSD/PPC, FreeBSD/MK? From owner-freebsd-platforms Fri Oct 10 23:41:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA03754 for platforms-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA03735; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.33]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA23637; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 01:43:38 +0500 Message-ID: <343F312A.386@asme.org> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:56:26 -0700 From: "Pedro Giffuni S," Organization: Ingenieria Integral Ltda. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold [it] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Douglas Carmichael CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? References: <199710102301.SAA00400@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Douglas Carmichael wrote: > > Could it be done by: > > 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) to PowerPC There is a newer version http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/lites/html/ > 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux) There is a NetBSD project also, but I can't recall if it runs with Mach. > 3) Making the whole "world" except the kernel and libraries from FreeBSD/i386. > To be honest there is not much interest for this :(. The ALPHA port is more interesting and I think Digital has offered some support for this. The other platforms don't really seem to care at all. Pedro. From owner-freebsd-platforms Sat Oct 11 19:49:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA24048 for platforms-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 19:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from kani.wwa.com (kani.wwa.com [198.49.174.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA24037 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 19:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skat@flask.com) Received: from flask.com(really [205.243.69.150]) by kani.wwa.com via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:49:21 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #21 built 1997-May-21) Message-ID: <34403BD6.58AFA92F@flask.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:54:19 -0500 From: Shin Katsumata Organization: Flask Productions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 (Macintosh; U; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pedro Giffuni S," , Freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? References: <199710102301.SAA00400@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> <343F312A.386@asme.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rhapsody, new OS for Power Mac (NextStep), is based on BSD 4.4 lite server running on top of Mach Kernel. I hope Apple will keep the consol/terminal in the OS for those of us who want the command line interface. Shin Pedro Giffuni S, wrote: > Douglas Carmichael wrote: > > > > Could it be done by: > > > > 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) to PowerPC > > There is a newer version > http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/lites/html/ > > > 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux) > > There is a NetBSD project also, but I can't recall if it runs with Mach. > > > 3) Making the whole "world" except the kernel and libraries from FreeBSD/i386. > > > > To be honest there is not much interest for this :(. The ALPHA port is > more interesting and I think Digital has offered some support for this. > The other platforms don't really seem to care at all. > > Pedro.