From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 19:01:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDEE106566C for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:01:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivakras1@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2595D8FC1A for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:01:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivakras1@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id d26so531098eyd.7 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:01:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=L5ouPRmEYaNlXdnvuhOPpAwE9+S9udk6z6+y0jtRoNU=; b=ljaXwE+3iLwaeZkXBJB9gOprq2v5G2/xgwVckMUs929iQe0pJJBPmE6+TfkAWiRnI7 p4PyAuB3uAUck/P41vuUEad0xBJ4NgkiAhk+kh1kaVr4TVVIWqsF7p5DJ1cnmw7FAAb5 NTi5Eulaj8CtOWgrmblCmaep4TuPFxgBDToM8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=TxNqSR75mZTADkWzS6QgVtEVim3u9Z1YXh3HIdYkrZXyEVPwAJpXRmw5CJ9ORfKnS5 4jmh0fWzPeUkV2CjOWtkatSdAe8H8czBpyX9TSKHdqB7yc2cdMlJLDoa7ydftxmSTQY0 YGyuhfwBqCrljPZSbOP//5wvNqMraf1VLT6WM= Received: by 10.210.78.16 with SMTP id a16mr16269722ebb.122.1230577265235; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.101? ([92.50.244.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 1sm32951112nfv.9.2008.12.29.11.01.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:01:04 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kolosov To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:00:55 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200812291836.34099.ivakras1@gmail.com> <4958F700.4000105@student.utwente.nl> <495909D7.5010904@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <495909D7.5010904@tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812292200.55111.ivakras1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD for mips X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:01:07 -0000 On Monday 29 December 2008 20:33:11 Josh Paetzel wrote: > Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote: > > Dmitry Kolosov wrote: > >> Is there a *BSD porting project to MIPS? > > > > If by MIPS you mean the Silicon Graphics machines, then yes. > > > > FreeBSD has a MIPS port in the works, but as far as I can tell it's still > > considered highly experimental. However, you may want to help out if you > > have the time ;-) > > > > OpenBSD seems to have limited MIPS support: 64-bit only, so an O2 will > > work but an Indy probably won't. > > > > NetBSD just works. I've had it running on two SGI Indy machines without > > much of any kind of trouble. But then again, NetBSD runs on just about > > everything. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Alphons > > If instead he means wireless devices with a MIPS based processor like > the linksys WRT54G or such, they lack a MMU and no BSD will run on them, > nor are the changes needed to lobotomize BSD enough to run on hardware > without an MMU trivial. oh, sounds bad :(