Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 20:13:29 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-Intel Hardware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <6453.810846809@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 1995 00:18:15 MDT." <199509080618.AAA09500@rover.village.org>
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In message <199509080618.AAA09500@rover.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >Question: > 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? <cough> <cough>. FreeBSD-platforms exists for this VERY reason! Speaking as someone who was nearly driven to sanity (note - no typo there :-) ) by trying to port FreeBSD pre-2.0-RELEASE to a popular UK box, work is underway / has been done. I have made changes to the structure of various makefiles to push them back into multi-platform compatability, and also questioned the logic behind the old bounce buffer ifdefs in the kernel which were ``backwards'' If you're looking for my work soon - sorry :-( We got to the point of a NEARLY functional kernel (basically everything short of disk i/o drivers), but several assumptions made early on came back to haunt us. I hate to say this, but I'm now too involved in other stuff (mostly FreeBSD related) to dedicate much time to the port, and the other person that was helping me is overloaded at work :-( >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. >Did I miss something, or did I read something out of context about >NetBSD and/or Linux? Nope. And do you really mean ``to other OSes''? :-) >You see, I have this odd-ball ARCBIOS MIPS box that I'd love to have a >non Microsoft OS for... Umm. Good luck :-) Gary
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