Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:19:14 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of FreeBSD/xbox Message-ID: <BANLkTik0h53sGsiGio4gPv5qwCVOsGkB4A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110403211128.GB14454@hoeg.nl> References: <BANLkTikOpWLQ9rC7w5qjhyxxWDZrQL4Apw@mail.gmail.com> <20110403192618.GS78089@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20110403211128.GB14454@hoeg.nl>
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On 3 April 2011 22:11, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: > Hi Chris, Kostik, > > * Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, 20110403 21:26: >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:40:14PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >> > In short-- FreeBSD/xbox is bitrotted (or so it appears!) > > Well, I did run FreeBSD HEAD on my Xbox only a couple of weeks ago and > it worked properly. I remember jhb@ made some PCI changes some time ago > that caused some breakage, but that got fixed as far as I know. > > So what kind of problems are you experiencing? > >> I wanted to remove XBOX for long time. With the introduction of Xen PV, >> i386/machdep.c became too convoluted. On the other hand, if you can >> bring it back to life, I definitely would not have an argument for removal. > > Sure. It was pretty awesome to see FreeBSD run on an Xbox, but nowadays > you can even get Android phones having better specs. Say, if the Xbox > code makes it hard to implement some kind of cool feature, I really > wouldn't mind seeing it go, as long as it's left the way it is in the > stable branches. Hey Ed, I've finally managed to dig the Xbox out; I was missing the video cable, but I gave up trying to find it and ebayed another. If you tried HEAD and it worked, I'm going to try that too; it may be that something in the 8- branch broke (not sure how, but probably not worth fixing if HEAD works OK). It was panicking on boot apparently, though kdb doesn't appear to work with the USB keyboard I was forced to use. I'll let you know how I get on with HEAD, Chris
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