From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 20:56:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4730216A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:56:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sentry.ucr.edu (sentry.ucr.edu [138.23.226.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0370743D2D for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:56:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beyert@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from localhost (c-24-130-226-184.we.client2.attbi.com [24.130.226.184]) by sentry.ucr.edu (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id BRP11267 (AUTH tbeye001); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:56:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:58:24 -0800 From: Timothy Beyer To: Brad Knowles Message-ID: <20041218205824.GB420@aeonserv.aeonnet> References: <20041218015853.11444.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> <20041218103825.GA420@aeonserv.aeonnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mutt/1.5.6i (ncurses 5.1; FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i (ncurses 5.1; FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386) cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:56:46 -0000 On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:02:37PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 2:38 AM -0800 2004-12-18, Timothy Beyer wrote: > > > 2) significantly improve Tendra C compiler (or any equivalent, > > non-proprietary, non-copylefted compiler) for base system. Should > > produce optimized code and should be fairly platform independent. > > Does that work for UltraSPARC, Alpha, AMD64, and all the other > platforms we need to support? Probably not, (I'm not sure) but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't support multiple architectures if it doesn't already...