From owner-freebsd-ppc Tue Mar 19 2:52:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jeamland.net (rafe.jeamland.net [203.18.243.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F0337B48F for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.9.176] (rtr1.snc.schools.net.au [203.2.135.22]) by mail.jeamland.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A977060A; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:51:45 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: PPC release as part of 5.0?? From: Benno Rice To: Bill Swingle Cc: ppc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020319081021.GA46751@dub.net> References: <3C96C548.5040104@mac.com> <1016517067.359.9.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> <20020319081021.GA46751@dub.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xUTWuHUEWyCZ4VqNBgv/" X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 19 Mar 2002 22:51:44 +1200 Message-Id: <1016535105.710.1.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-xUTWuHUEWyCZ4VqNBgv/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 20:10, Bill Swingle wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:51:05PM +1200, Benno Rice wrote: > > It depends on how far we've progressed. I'm hoping to have it to at > > least single-user by 5.0 so it may appear at some point in the 5.0 > > lifecycle or it may wait until 6.0. It depends on how the development > > goes. > >=20 > > The current status is that it makes it to attempting to start > > /sbin/init. >=20 > Is there anything that the average joe user can do to help out at the > moment? I'm in no shape to actually be hacking on -ppc but have a few > powerbooks at my disposal that I could do other stuff on. Not unless you want to get deep into the kernel guts. =3D) Once we hit a reliable single user things start to get more interesting. That's when userland work's needed. At the moment though it's all kernel. Later on it'll be good to have people test the stuff on hardware I don't have, or for them to make that hardware available to me in some form so I can make sure it runs on there. For the moment though what I need is more time to work on this. =3D/ --=20 Benno Rice benno@jeamland.net --=-xUTWuHUEWyCZ4VqNBgv/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjyXGEAACgkQXjRwWofFmQlrmwCfVk4WQp/GfsAEDIHm8ucEcNKJ zIQAn1dMOWGnWWDImy5sv3mdtUxQJd0i =nECI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xUTWuHUEWyCZ4VqNBgv/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message