From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 0:51:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [195.243.50.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9BE37B665 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from so@i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (ente.i-clue.de [192.168.0.42]) by server.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07694; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:53:22 +0200 Message-ID: <38E1C431.1722FCE5@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:52:01 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Withrow 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 schrieb: > 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. When a PowerPC port starts, I can contribute some work. Got some idle Power macs sitting in a shelf. Anyhow, my level of experience is limited. I can do compiles and patches, as well as do some limited bugfixing, but don't count me in as Unix expert. -Christoph Sold P.S: Apologies if my Netscape mailer misbehaves again... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message