Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:26:01 -0800 From: Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Subject: Re: StrongARM support? Message-ID: <3A4050F9.749A0819@wireless.net> References: <78656.976769151@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <3A3862E4.5A46E14C@wireless.net> <20001218151235.D69041@peorth.iteration.net> <20001219154829.A79058@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:12:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > > I would be quite interested. But do we have the resouces and the man-hours > > to handle IA-64/KA-64/PPC/Alpha/StrongARM at the same time? > > Agreed. > > > Perhaps the first step would be to start a freebsd-arm@freebsd.org > > mailing list? > > Then why start Yet Another(tm) mailing list for it as everyone has agreed > it isn't time for that yet. I don't think that "everyone" had reached any such agreement. It would seem to me that there is sufficient interest in FreeBSD/StrongARM that such a project is certainly worth pursuing. A mailing list would definitely be helpful to coordinating the project, gaining additional support for the project, and it would also serve to keep all the chatter off of -hackers. > > > We could simply build a cross-gcc on ARM/Linux and the rest is > > making sure that everything compiles. > > How about concentrating effort on just _one_ new platform (ok, two -- > ia64 and powerpc)??? > Well I certainly would agree that we should concentrate effort on just one or two new platforms. If there is more interest in a PPC or ia64 port than in a StrongARM port, then it would make more sense to concentrate on those. However, if there is more interest in StrongARM now, and hence people willing to working on it *now* and bring it to life, then pursuing a StrongARM port would make more sense. I for one am interested in helping put FreeBSD on a StrongARM. :) -- Regards, Devin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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