From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 23:58:41 2005 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 5B3BD16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:58:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A07243D39 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:58:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id j0LNwaNW004929; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:58:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-24-17-100-138.client.comcast.net [24.17.100.138]) (authenticated bits=0)j0LNwYor015940; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:58:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5AE2178E-6C08-11D9-9DB7-000A959815C2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Leimbach Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:58:32 -0800 To: Garance A Drosihn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD 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: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:58:41 -0000 And once you have FreeBSD PPC... you can do weird stuff like this: http://www.macminicolo.net/faq.html Ok it's not that weird. Dave On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 1:15 PM -0800 1/21/05, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: >> What do people thinking about the Mac mini >> (http://www.modyourmac.com/minipics/) and FreeBSD? This little >> computer is just so so tempting. :-) >> >> Think there should be any issues? > > In a reply to one of my recent messages, Peter said: > > I'd say there's a very good chance [that FreeBSD/PPC will work on > the Mac-mini]. My guess is that it's Powerbook-style internals, > i.e. the Intrepid ASIC: > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/ > Macintosh_CPUs-G4/15inchPowerBookG4/index.html > > And there shouldn't be any issues with that. > > I can use a Mac-mini for other purposes if it does not work out with > FreeBSD/PPC, so I'm going to try to get up early tomorrow to see if > I can get to the local Apple Store early enough to pick one up. If I > succeed at that, I'll let people on this list know how well I make > out with FreeBSD/PPC on it. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"