From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 6 16:56: 8 2001 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 16:55:52 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C8C37B400; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A5C4E6A911; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:25:48 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:25:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List , benno@FreeBSD.org Subject: PowerPC support(was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <20010107112548.A97330@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:05:24PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 6 January 2001 at 18:05:24 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > Folks, > > I've been looking a bit more closely into what it would take for > me to be able to make my PCI PowerMacintosh 7200/90 usable with some > *BSD variant. Theoretically, it's usable today with MkLinux, but we > know that this is a dead-end project, and I'm not interested in > dead-ends. > > I looked, and of course FreeBSD does not currently support > PowerPC. Benno Rice is working on it. Don't expect anything usable for a while. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message