From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 15 05:48:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA09107 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 05:48:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (root@mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA09090; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 05:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gad@mlor.its.rpi.edu) Received: from mlor.its.rpi.edu (mlor.its.rpi.edu [128.113.24.92]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA79068; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:48:15 -0400 Received: by mlor.its.rpi.edu (NX5.67f2/NX3.0M) id AA00448; Wed, 15 Oct 97 08:48:07 -0400 Message-Id: <9710151248.AA00448@mlor.its.rpi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Garance A Drosehn Date: Wed, 15 Oct 97 08:48:05 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for VirtualPC? (on the PowerMac) Reply-To: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: <199710102301.SAA00400@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAA09098 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On the subject of: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Douglas Carmichael asks: > Could it be done by: > > 1) Porting the "Lites" single server (http://www.cs.hut.fi/lites.html) > to PowerPC > 2) Running it under Mach (which is already used by MkLinux) > 3) Making the whole "world" except the kernel and libraries from > FreeBSD/i386. > > What would be a good name for this project? > MkFreeBSD, FreeBSD/PPC, FreeBSD/MK? First off, I'd like to say I'd be interested in a FreeBSD/PPC if such an option existed... Secondly, I was wondering if FreeBSD will work under VirtualPC. I remember someone trying it and finding a bug in the VirtualPC emulation. VirtualPC was recently updated, and I was wondering if anyone had tried FreeBSD after that update. (the release notes for the VirtualPC upgrade have nothing that suggests this bug was fixed, but that may be just because they don't claim to officially support FreeBSD at the moment). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA