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From: "Matt Sealey" <matt@genesi-usa.com>
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What about the reverse? Could the FreeBSD code be an inspiration to the
NetBSD guys (whichever works first, basically?)

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Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Grehan [mailto:grehan@freebsd.org] 
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:00 PM
> To: matt@genesi-usa.com
> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on PPC using work from other BSD's?
> 
> > Just curious, would any of the work done on OpenBSD be directly 
> > relevant to the FreeBSD PPC port for example on Pegasos?
> 
>   It could be a useful reference, but the driver model is 
> different enough on FreeBSD that code would have to be 
> significantly reworked.
> 
> later,
> 
> Peter.
> 
>