From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 05:56:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA19290 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 05:56:29 -0700 Received: from westhill.cdrom.com (westhill.cdrom.com [192.216.223.57]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA19284 ; Wed, 10 May 1995 05:56:28 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by westhill.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id FAA11473 ; Wed, 10 May 1995 05:56:14 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: westhill.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Caspar Arquint cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, platforms@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports of FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 1995 10:20:18 +0200." <199505100820.KAA04889@tau.inf.ethz.ch> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 05:56:13 -0700 Message-ID: <11472.800110573@westhill.cdrom.com> From: Gary Palmer Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199505100820.KAA04889@tau.inf.ethz.ch>, Caspar Arquint writes: >I wonder what the intention about porting of FreeBSD is. >Currently there are only 386/486's supported - right? Not quite - see below... >Is there maybe an intention like "FreeBSD only supports 386/486" ? Not as far as I am aware - in fact, in the past I have been encouraged by several core team members to get another platform supported. >Or are there any other plans to support Pentium or even to port ^^^^^^^ Pardon? I happen to have a Pentium (P5-90) sitting on my desk at work running FreeBSD ... :-) And freefall (aka FreeBSD.ORG) and wcarchive (aka ftp.cdrom.com & ftp.FreeBSD.ORG) are P5's also! So I get the impression that Pentium processors are supported ... :-) >to PowerPC? Sure FreeBSD will already run on a Pentium machine but >this CPU has some more feature than a 486 or even a 386 has, which >if supported by the OS directly may make a machine even more faster...;-) PowerPC? Show me the market for such a port! A high percentage of the PowerPC's in circulation are in Mac's at DTP houses (or art departments, or wherever, where specialised s/w is needed, which isn't available under FreeBSD) ... not much call for FreeBSD there ... And there isn't such a thing as a PowerPC ``PC'' yet AFAIK. P5 features are supported by the OS when it's sensible to do so AFAIK. We haven't yet gone through the kernel trying to bend over backwards to make the P5 run faster, and much of what we could do is up the the GCC optimiser probably (sour laugh is heard in the background) ... Also, there are efforts underway to port to at least 2 other architectures ... (3 if I ever get any spare time (ha ha ha)). Gary