Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:21:51 -0800 From: Laurent de Segur <ldesegur@mac.com> To: James Sarrett <James.Sarrett@asu.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port still active? Message-ID: <DB66BFCE-E809-11D5-AE12-0030657BCA62@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <F6473ED9-E7FC-11D5-9B13-003065FB9A8C@asu.edu>
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James, Thanks for the info. I will build a ppc toolchain and install it on my freebsd machine and try what you suggest. I was hoping for an iso for quick evaluation, but realize now how early this project is. Regards, LdS On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 06:49 AM, James Sarrett wrote: > this port is still in the early stages of development. i don't think it > actually boots stably yet, but you can try cross compiling it, it's in > the CURRENT branch of the CVS tree. you can try it out on the PSIM > simulator that is now bundled with gdb. info here: > http://sources.redhat.com/psim > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/ofppc/psim.html > > and if you just have to try it on actual hardware (not that it works > for sure anyway) i'd suggest cross compiling and installing on a second > harddrive. booting *should* be fairly straightforward (haven't tried > this myself yet) from open firmware, seeing as the newer versions will > boot XCOFF and ELF binaries natively. > > Apologies if any of this info is incorrect, I'm new here too. > -James Sarrett. > > On Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 09:24 PM, Laurent de Segur wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was just curious to find out if this list is still alive. How do I >> get information on bootstrapping FreeBSD to boot on a powerpc machine? >> Do I need a x86 machine to cross-compile? Can I use a NetBSD running >> on the native ppc platform? Is gcc in Darwin OK? Please help me >> starting. Which hw are people on this list trying to port to? Mac >> only? Does that require to cross-compile using a toolchain on a x86 >> machine? What the stage of advancement of the project? Does that pass >> the console login prompt yet? So many questions... Thanks for letting >> me know, >> >> Laurent >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the messagehome | help
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