From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 21:42:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68FA37B6DE for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:42:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28307; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:42:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38E19835.D9C3554D@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:44:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Withrow Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bwithrow@engeast.BayNetworks.COM, witr@rwwa.com, tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD on PowerPC? References: <200003290108.UAA33365@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Withrow wrote: > > 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. > > 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. Terry Lambert was pretty interested in this once upon a time. You might want to ping him. I've cc'd him in case he's interested. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message