Date: 15 May 2003 23:49:46 +1000 From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rename to freebsd-powerpc? Message-ID: <1053006586.649.42.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> In-Reply-To: <45D0C30C-86CC-11D7-8F56-0003937E39E0@mac.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 21:56, David Leimbach wrote: > Well is the goal to support "all" PowerPC or just Macintosh? The goal is to be as generic as we can be. > There are a ton of VME PowerPC boards out there and some > RS/6000s that might be able to run FreeBSD as well. Yep. The issue is getting someone with the time to do the work who has access to that hardware. > What is the goal of people on this list? If its just mac-powerpc > perhaps that is the way to go? Of course if Apple actually releases > a Mac based on PPC-970 [64 bit PPC CPU] then we might get more confusion > with Mac-PowerPC. :) > > Technically I think PPC is fine, powerpc is better but it may not > really be more specific :). And PPC is more specific? PowerPC is the name of the specification that all of these processors follow, whether it's the 32-bit or 64-bit OEA specifications or the weird variants like the IBM 4xx's they're all called PowerPC. Since we have a driver in the system called ppc which handles PC parallel port stuff, I've always made a concious effort to refer to the platform as powerpc rather than ppc. It's also the name of the directory in which the arch-specific code resides. The idea of the codebase is to support as many PowerPC platforms as we can, so I think that's the right name for it. -- Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+w5r6XjRwWofFmQkRAquEAJ90ELG6Zxj50h/PDZHFD641zsIcSACfcFIb gHb2HFrBDxL/h07My7h1j9M= =4rYs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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