From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 6 19:22:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A301F15006 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA84908; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:29:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:29:18 +1000 From: John Birrell To: Terry Lambert Cc: "D.M.P." , andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM, kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) Message-ID: <19991007122917.A83921@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <37FAD45F.9A04C962@mindless.com> <199910070144.SAA21696@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <199910070144.SAA21696@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 01:44:37AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 01:44:37AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Don't count 68k's out just yet. There's quite a few Performa and > > Quadra systems still in use as firewall boxes or low-traffic mail > > servers. Just as one would use a 486 for the same jobs with FreeBSD. > > > FWIW: > > Name: Palm Vx > Availability: October 4 > Cost: $449 (http://www.palm.com/products/palmvx/index.html) > RAM: 8MB > Network: iRDA > Processor: 68328 <-- Note > Keyboard: Serial (KeySync Palm Keyboard DKP62, $69.00) > > This is enough memory to run a 68x FreeBSD on a Palm Pilot. For embedded work, m68k and i386 are still useful. I have local changes to the FreeBSD makefiles to cross build to various targets, including m68k, PPC and sparc. I hope to commit the cross-build changes after David O'Brien reviews the egcs/gcc makefile restructure. Now that I am working for a client with lots of Sparc machines and that they have given me secure access to these outside hours, I can (finally) contribute to FreeBSD/Sparc. I guess that sparc and m68k FreeBSD ports will be like the alpha was - people won't contribute until some of the initial (no-brain) work is done. Unlike the alpha port, though, using a NetBSD kernel for bootstrap purposes is not required. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ john.birrell@opendirectory.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message