Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:46:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non-Intel Hardware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199509081746.KAA04369@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509080618.AAA09500@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Sep 8, 95 00:18:15 am
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> 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.
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