From owner-freebsd-ppc Tue Mar 19 8:27: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2390037B402 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46516 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Mar 2002 16:27:03 -0000 Date: 19 Mar 2002 08:27:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:27:03 -0800 From: Bill Swingle To: Benno Rice Cc: ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPC release as part of 5.0?? Message-ID: <20020319162703.GA45177@dub.net> References: <3C96C548.5040104@mac.com> <1016517067.359.9.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> <20020319081021.GA46751@dub.net> <1016535105.710.1.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1016535105.710.1.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD toxic.magnesium.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 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 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:51:44PM +1200, Benno Rice wrote: > 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. >=20 > Not unless you want to get deep into the kernel guts. =3D) I'd like to but I think my time constrants make it impossible to spend the time I'd need to get a basic understanding on what needs to be done. (i.e. we'd all like to be kernel hackers... :) ) > Once we hit a reliable single user things start to get more > interesting. That's when userland work's needed. >=20 > At the moment though it's all kernel. >=20 > 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/ Ok, well I'll leave you alone. :) Would it help to update the platforms/ppc.html page on the site to give people an idea of how much work there is to do so that they'll stop asking when they can install it? :) -Bill --=20 -=3D| Bill Swingle - -=3D| Every message PGP signed -=3D| Fingerprint: C1E3 49D1 EFC9 3EE0 EA6E 6414 5200 1C95 8E09 0223 -=3D| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso= =20 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8l2bXUgAclY4JAiMRAiktAKCXtkYa2vb/ak2uBmF8lhcmFo875QCeKRjH L31FJT87CX5Y2KrdjzfpQu4= =pBdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message