From owner-freebsd-ppc Tue Jan 9 12:15: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6F037B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:14:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipitythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29314; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:14:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f09KEiv78687; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:14:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:14:44 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the abi & hardware support Message-ID: <20010109121444.B77750@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <200101082315.f08NFh316673@salzburg-online.at> <20010108191234.A88168@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010108191234.A88168@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:12:34PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:12:34PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > I think that we will support whatever is at hand with the developers. > There is no need for constant bickering over what should be supported. > (Hint hint, bikeshed stops here. :-) ) To some degree there is -- maintainability and cleanliness of code. Also I will not support a toolchain that produces anything other than ELF. So if a particular Mac model needs a COFF kernel, I most likely won't help in making that happen. > For me, personally, I would like to support at least the G3/G4 and > the _newer_ embedded platforms, especially PPC8420. > This means that your junk from the garage would not be > (at least speaking for myself) a great priority. 100% agreed. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message