From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 9:30:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE82150C4 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id SAA08472 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:30:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA82206 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:27:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: porting sparc,mips,powerpc Date: 30 Dec 1999 18:27:47 +0100 Message-ID: <84g4mj$2g8l$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <386A3724.C1BE9CF7@pop.mindspring.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG george greene 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message