From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 19 22:25:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 22:25:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from db.wireless.net (adsl-gte-la-216-86-194-70.mminternet.com [216.86.194.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A04737B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:25:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from wireless.net (dbm.wireless.net [192.168.0.2]) by db.wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA38583; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Sender: dbutter@db.wireless.net Message-ID: <3A4050F9.749A0819@wireless.net> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:26:01 -0800 From: Devin Butterfield X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Michael C . Wu" Subject: Re: StrongARM support? References: <78656.976769151@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <3A3862E4.5A46E14C@wireless.net> <20001218151235.D69041@peorth.iteration.net> <20001219154829.A79058@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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