Date: 13 Dec 2002 13:21:16 +1100 From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD and IBM J40/50 servers Message-ID: <1039746076.638.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3DF93AA4.ED23D341@freebsd.org> References: <000001c2a20e$a9cd4880$79b7fea9@thresher> <3DF93AA4.ED23D341@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:40, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > Has anyone had any success porting BSD to either this platform or the > > RS/6000 43p 140 as I will probably taking delivery of examples of these > > in the new year and would be able to carry out testinf for any works in > > progress > > The work to date has been PowerPC G3/G4 processors on Apple hardware. > There hasn't been any attempt to my knowledge to do an IBM POWER series > port. If it's PowerPC 601 or any of the 64-bit PowerPC chips it's somewhat outside of what we're aiming to support with this. I can easily see a powerpc64 port happening later on, but 601 is just too old and too different from the "normal" PowerPC variants. -- Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9+UQcXjRwWofFmQkRAh8HAJ97gU/ZwkIlqEcwsO9TG9Y0dC3cTwCggIxe u4eki/+pfBnj/hQSX5bcKC8= =mSSn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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