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Date:      30 Dec 1999 18:27:47 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: porting sparc,mips,powerpc
Message-ID:  <84g4mj$2g8l$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <386A3724.C1BE9CF7@pop.mindspring.com>

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george greene <gmgreene@mindspring.com> wrote:

> i was wondering how one goes about starting a port to other
> processors / systems.

I suspect the answer to that is: If you don't know, then you don't
know nearly enough about the task at hand to get this done in the
first place.

> has a port of freebsd been done for alpha and alpha motherboard for
> www.api-processor.com?

There is a port of FreeBSD to the alpha platform which should
support most alpha machines for which an SRM console is available.

> i can also try to port the hp risc based workstation.

If you want to do this, I strongly suggest you give mickey a hand
in getting the fledgling OpenBSD/hppa port up and going. He already
has a headstart there, and it should be substantially easier to
port hppa support over from OpenBSD than developing it from scratch.
The FreeBSD/alpha folks certainly drew heavily from NetBSD/alpha.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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