Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:02:27 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, kim@tinker.com, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970311204856.11272A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199703111731.KAA25504@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I think you've picked a fairly good place, actually. There's various > > noise about the Alpha coming from Jordan, and some interest in a Mips > > port as well. Terry Lambert was working on the PPC code previously; I > > understand he was using AIX as a development platform, but had some > > problems with documentation suppliers screwing him around. > > A friend of mine has a lab full of VAX hardware and a lab full of > Sun hardware, and a bunch of student who have yet to be told what > can't be done by a well-meaning core team member. 8-). > > I have a DEC Alpha, and I have the code that Jeffrey Hsu had hacked on > plus my hacks, so I have a head start on the Alpha. > > I also have an HP3xx (68040). > > I also have an MCA machine (PS/2-56?). > > I also have the PPC loaner machine that I've been working on on and > off since recovering from my accident enough to let me sit more than > 8 hours a day (which I have to do for my normal job). > > The PPC machine is booting using modified Linux boot code (binary). > It uses PPCBug, not Open Firmware, so it's hardly a port. I also > have a number of VM problems I have yet to find. It's a Motorola > Ultra 603 system, the same as used in Motorola "PowerStack" systems, > and the same as sold by FirePower Systems and Arrow Electronics. I > dumped $500 down the toilet trying to get PPCBug documentation out > of Arrow (I bought it from them twice, but didn't get it either time). > They are the only supplier I can go through because Motorola assigns > dealer sales territories. > > > I'm a registered BeBox developer, and I have corresponded in the not > so recent past with Gassee about hardware documentation (which is what > led to there being enough documentation for a Linux port). But the > BeBox itself is a dead platform since Be has quit building them to > concentrate on being "NeXT for PPC" after Apple bought NeXT to make > themselves "NeXT for PPC". > > > The NetBSD code, at least for the PPC, is the hosted OS approach, and > so is somewhat more than unsatisfying, actually, so starting there will > help only where the ROM stuff isn't used. And the big difference > between FreeBSD and NetBSD is still the VM system. > Well, there is also pios 1 (www.pios.de)... I don't unfortunately have the money for one, but I guess it could be possible to get information from them. After all, they are said to be making (? who knows) Linux port for Pios 1. Sander > > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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