From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 09:54:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822B916A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:54:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mat.wilkinson@kent.ac.uk) Received: from mx5.kent.ac.uk (mx5.kent.ac.uk [129.12.21.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173B343D46 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:54:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mat.wilkinson@kent.ac.uk) Received: from stue9b0.kent.ac.uk ([129.12.233.176]) by mx5.kent.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.44) id 1F23pV-0007Iz-HM for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:54:13 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <20060125010214.7a84b748.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <3a108bac0601240036v657389b6x7775048fdb273973@mail.gmail.com> <20060125010214.7a84b748.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Matthew Wilkinson Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:54:14 +0000 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-UKC-Mail-System: No virus detected X-UKC-SpamCheck: X-UKC-MailScanner-From: mat.wilkinson@kent.ac.uk Subject: Re: Is there any support for the Peg II PPC hardware (planned)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:54:20 -0000 On 25 Jan 2006, at 00:02, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:36:58 +0100 > Henrik Andersen wrote: > >> Hi Darren! >> I'm not a developer, but this has been up before so I'll jump in >> anyway. Support for the Pegasos is not planned or worked on at the >> moment. This is in part (or more likely only) because of the Pegasos >> different implementation of OpenFirmware. > > On the other hand, this shouldn't deter people with strong enough > motivation and access to the hardware. > Anyone (given enough motivation and time) can learn how to > implement the > necessary code for a port to a new hardware platform. > In this case, it isn't even a brand new platform, just different > intialization stage and different hardware devices. > > No, I'm not saying that this is the easiest assignment a person can > undertake. > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I'm interested in helping out with the port, where do I start? I've never had any experience with porting an OS before. Thanks, Matt