From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 18 01:28:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BC4106566C for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:28:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lisong.pine@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6F38FC22 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so334553fge.13 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:28:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=e9pJagT4gBIHDl/Zowk1RR4R8OEToCVNSg3M+djy9yU=; b=O5qp/jB/jl5Fc39aG7W4y85xMZTQ2JXznwNA2N5VuseSEYIJYxHD6mHDw8aA+CBure c0ditAiO8p9JbjwxnpIZurvpFqG13esq0GOCBQ9EK044nHDn5y+fmP6EbG2dqSqKl2Oa 1HiwN0CR+H1r1vY4t5ZV6rQE4Zc4ctdcI+8hk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=ix6jafd+48FIyMKu/O3T/K8sAvge3HQhoJ2T/rjZyOxdoicuIKm3DFX5ZSIRom3t3F t9vQjYzzVbghw6e8jW73GJt6pgvWNRAq+677JuDCMg7apkJhjiO19OzDd61Fzgzbtd11 Ta/t8aAAT+Chk3pu0xV+ODum67CuxtjrgArb8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: lisong.pine@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.188.17 with SMTP id n17mr524188hbh.214.1263778082042; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:28:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <44C3FEF4-A572-42C4-8032-62A17A4239A6@lakerest.net> References: <44C3FEF4-A572-42C4-8032-62A17A4239A6@lakerest.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:28:02 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 597b0cab1fa3830d Message-ID: From: Song Li To: Randall Stewart Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current development status of FreeBSD MIPS and how to contribute? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:28:03 -0000 Thank you for the quick reply. It seems that the mailing list is active!! Sorry I know nothing about RMI/XLR. I am generally interested in porting the whole system instead of individual packages. By that I mean, porting the set of all commonly used applications like what the current FreeBSD 8.0 x86 release contains. Sorry I might be too ignorant about OS porting to be realistic -- never done that before. I surely have the GXEmul but I also have a real hardware, Loongson, which is relatively new with not so competitive performance but hopefully it will be better in the future. Yes, I am from the bay area but I am currently in German. I may come back in a few weeks though. We can surely meet then if you also live nearby. Where do you live? cheers, Song On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Randall Stewart wrote: > Song Li: > > Good to here from you ;-) > > Well our general conspirator and coordinator is > > bsdimp.. imp@freebsd.org aka Warner Losh. > > Warner is currently working on the cavium. > > I am working in my spare time on RMI/XLR > > There are bunches of other folks as well that contribute we > can all be found on #bsdmips in IRC. > > What hardware do you have available to play with... since you are > at stanford you must be in the bay area ;-) > > If you want to meet some time let me know ;-D > > R > On Jan 17, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Song Li wrote: > >> Hi fellow gurus, >> >> May I ask who are actively involved in porting FreeBSD to MIPS? I am >> interested in working on it. May I ask how to contribute to the >> FreeBSD MIPS port? I checked the >> wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips but do not see much >> info there. What's the current plan/timeline? What hardware is it >> gonna support in a >> near future? Anywhere I can start from? Thanks. >> >> I have some experience working on FreeBSD kernels a few years ago >> (probably still FreeBSD 4.x at that time). I also worked with x86 and >> (teaching) ARM assmebly before. I have some general knowlege on >> assmebly language but limited knowledge on MIPS though. I have also >> experience on writing OS (more like at the toy/instructional level >> though) and the understanding of all the major concepts OS in general >> for sure. Is this good enough to start contributing? Or if not then >> any comments where I should catch up? Thanks. >> >> Best, >> >> Song >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > ------------------------------ > Randall Stewart > 803-317-4952 (cell) > 803-345-0391(direct) > >