From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 17:27:01 2003 Return-Path: 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 6B7FB16A4B3; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blarf.homeip.net (adsl-209-204-188-56.sonic.net [209.204.188.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7E743FBF; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listmail@blarf.homeip.net) Received: by blarf.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 7BFE424599; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:27:00 -0700 From: Alex Zepeda To: Peter Grehan , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031014002700.GA5906@blarf.homeip.net> References: <3F8B2C43.4A3F8E1C@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F8B2C43.4A3F8E1C@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: zipzippy@sonic.net Subject: Re: Hardware Donation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:27:01 -0000 On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:50:43AM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > > I don't know if anyone is interested, but my parents just bought a new > > mac, and I snagged their old powermac 6500/225. > > Thanks for the offer, but FreeBSD/PPC is targeting NewWorld machines at > the moment. Well I'd love to see FreeBSD work on the old-world machines. I've got one more thing I've been meaning to try to get the FreeBSD loader working. If that doesn't work... perhaps it would be possible to get FreeBSD to lay the kernel out in a manner that the NetBSD loader would like. > It looks like it's possible to get NetBSD to run on this model if you > want to try a *BSD. Yeah, NetBSD runs on all PCI PowerMacs that don't have a PPC 601. - alex