From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 8 10:53:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA21018 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:53:13 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA21010 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:53:12 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04369; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:46:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509081746.KAA04369@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Non-Intel Hardware and FreeBSD To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:46:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199509080618.AAA09500@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Sep 8, 95 00:18:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1012 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Is it possible, or is there work in progress, to change the > structure of the kernel and other sources to allow for multiple > hardware platforms in the FreeBSD project? You mean, like pushing a devfs, eliminating the structure padding and alignment issues, modularizing the system initialization, etc.? 8-). > I know that NetBSD does this, but at least in the 2.0.5 sources I have > I don't see anything like like non-i386 support present. Yet I've > read, in other forums, that FreeBSD is being ported to other OSes. It is being ported. > Did I miss something, or did I read something out of context about > NetBSD and/or Linux? Yeah. Nobody who's doing the work has made formal announcement. > You see, I have this odd-ball ARCBIOS MIPS box that I'd love to have a > non Microsoft OS for... I'd say start with the NetBSD MIPS sources and get hacking. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.