Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:55:37 -0700 From: James Sarrett <James.Sarrett@asu.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: send-pr categories & FreeBSD/powerpc or -ppc Message-ID: <0BB6F3D3-3B84-11D6-87B5-003065FB9A8C@asu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020318185231.B18154@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 07:52 PM, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:06:55PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> However, to follow up, it seems that NetBSD has a few >> different 'ppc' platforms, with 'macppc' looking like >> it is the busiest. OpenBSD also has a 'macppc' port. >> I guess that brings up the question of how we see our >> port. Is it specific to "mac powerPC" machines? Or >> are we expecting the same port to work for other >> powerPC/POWER machines? (How about those POWER-4 >> machines that IBM talks about? :-) > fwiw, a afaik, the POWER4 and other POWER chips aren't PPC chips, they have a different architecture, which is similar, but doesn't include all the idiosyncracies that mother motor imposed on the original PPC spec. OS/400, and OS/390 will run on POWER chips as well as PPC chips, but i don't think OS/390 wil run on PPC chips, although AIX has binary compat... -James (if i'm wrong it won't be the first time, and i should hope not the last.) > > I thought this has been hashed out several times before. > This platform, for now, is envisioned as a TOOLBOX of bits for those > wanting to use FreeBSD in embedded PowerPC applications. We are not > "port to the toaster" NetBSD. We cannot sustain FreeBSD on every > popular piece of PowerPC hardware. The Mac was picked as the reference > platform. There are others that have goals beyond this; but the goal I > stated is the one that has the support of the Core team I have talked > to. > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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