Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 19:26:41 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org> Cc: Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com>, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012185427.15515B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <343F312A.386@asme.org>
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On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Pedro Giffuni S, wrote: > Douglas Carmichael wrote: > > > > Could it be done by: > > > > 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) to PowerPC > > There is a newer version > http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/lites/html/ > > > 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux) > > There is a NetBSD project also, but I can't recall if it runs with Mach. > To be exact there are both NetBSD and OpenBSD projects in the work of porting to the PowerPC (OpenBSD-s came partially from NetBSD, and there are a number of diffrences (like the use of ELF)). As far as I know, none of these are based on Mach, both are native, at least to a point. There does not seem to be native drivers yet (OpenFirmware is used instead). > > 3) Making the whole "world" except the kernel and libraries from FreeBSD/i386. > > > > To be honest there is not much interest for this :(. The ALPHA port is > more interesting and I think Digital has offered some support for this. > The other platforms don't really seem to care at all. > There is (or at least seems to be) some interest in this, but it is latent at the moment - nothing much really going on, which could, to ceratin extent be attributed also as the cause for the lack of support. Sander > Pedro. > >
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