From owner-freebsd-ppc Mon Apr 17 6:54:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from ryan.net (tki-1-240.tki.net [208.156.51.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A14037B70A for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 06:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@ryan.net) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ryan.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09885; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:29:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:29:05 -0400 (EDT) From: ryan To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com, freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/PowerPC and Apple Darwin OS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > > FreeBSD/PPC is likely to be oriented towards embedded platforms rather > than PowerMac, esp as more documentation of the hardware tends to be > available. Hopefully some 3rd party PPC machines will emerge soon, perhaps > based on IBMs motherboard designs they released. actually, Jordan stated in an interview for Boardwatch magazine that the power macintosh g3 is the initial reference platform http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/2000/feb/bwm79pg2.html ... however, i'm pretty sure you're on track that there's bsdi for embedded powerpc now (as well as net/openbsd) codebases that'll contibute to the port. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message