From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 06:49:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7476637B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 06:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.jeamland.net (arlond.jeamland.net [202.45.126.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DCD43F3F for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 06:49:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benno@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.2.3.4] (ratchet.jeamland.net [150.101.215.21]) by mail.jeamland.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448C729D70; Thu, 15 May 2003 23:49:47 +1000 (EST) From: Benno Rice To: David Leimbach In-Reply-To: <45D0C30C-86CC-11D7-8F56-0003937E39E0@mac.com> References: <45D0C30C-86CC-11D7-8F56-0003937E39E0@mac.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-aon61/Bd39m7mcJKSs3g" Organization: Message-Id: <1053006586.649.42.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 15 May 2003 23:49:46 +1000 cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rename to freebsd-powerpc? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 13:49:51 -0000 --=-aon61/Bd39m7mcJKSs3g Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. :) >=20 > 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. --=20 Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org --=-aon61/Bd39m7mcJKSs3g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+w5r6XjRwWofFmQkRAquEAJ90ELG6Zxj50h/PDZHFD641zsIcSACfcFIb gHb2HFrBDxL/h07My7h1j9M= =4rYs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-aon61/Bd39m7mcJKSs3g--