From owner-freebsd-ppc Fri Apr 21 7: 6: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from pobox.rwwa.com (pobox.rwwa.com [216.254.75.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C10637B843; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:05:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Received: from rwwa.com (spooky.rwwa.com [192.124.97.13]) by pobox.rwwa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA63097; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:12:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Message-Id: <200004211412.KAA63097@pobox.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Luoqi Chen , freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any porting effort In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:00:36 PDT." <20000420230036.A5510@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:05:58 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG obrien@FreeBSD.ORG said: :-The port is targeting the blue&white G3 and G4. However, with your :-kernel experience, other machine support is certainly your decision. I'm working on a port that apparently would be much more general, in that it isn't *targeted* at any particular architecture, and in particular would be easily ported to embedded systems without any of the typical things you find in the g3 and g4 systems. I've worked with the linux ppc port, and it is pretty flawed in terms of portability because it *was* targeted to a specific architecture and is littered with ifdefs and false assumptions that makes porting to foreign architectures rather painful. Are you keeping an *official* repository of code? Also, are you willing to see your port modified to emphasize portability? Either way, I'd like to get access to your work today if possible. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message