From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 17:13:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg134-189.ricochet.net [204.179.134.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2EB37B58C for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:13:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA03103; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003290116.RAA03103@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Robert Withrow Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, bwithrow@engeast.BayNetworks.COM, witr@rwwa.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD on PowerPC? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:08:15 EST." <200003290108.UAA33365@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:16:54 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Don't see anything about this on the web page. Is there any > activity/interest in porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC, and in > particular to embedded (non-MAC) systems? I've been pinging > "core" people about this but haven't seem to teak their interrest. Yes, there is very real interest. Are you just curious, or looking to contribute to the port? > I gather that BSDI has a powerPC port, but I'd rather use the > FreeBSD codebase rather than theirs, for a number of reasons. > Perhaps if just select portions of there code were used it > would be OK. I think you mean NetBSD, and it's traditional for us to pick up their work - you might even say that it's their job. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message