From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 5 14:19: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA2B15676 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08054; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:16:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd007942; Tue Oct 5 14:16:32 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17594; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:16:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199910052116.OAA17594@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:16:30 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Oct 5, 99 08:54:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > It wasn't that long ago that I began to think about the fact that Apple > > had contacted the FreeBSD folks (-core, I think) about including some > > parts into Mac OS X. For some reason, I thought about the possiblity of > > porting FreeBSD to the "Mac" platform and was suddenly enlightened. > > However, if Mac OS X doesn't run on 68K machines, I see no reason why we > > can't ask for a little help in porting... > > > > Of course, I'm one to speak. The only Mac I own doesn't work. > > Look in the archives of FreeBSD-sparc on when (and how) to ask a > commercial entity for help. > > The demand for freebsd that runs on 68x machines is probably low to very > low. Especially has NetBSD has been available for some time and FreeBSD > doesn't (AFAIK) support VME yet. NetBSD runs fine on my 68040 HP box. And binaries will run across the HP/Amiga/Macintosh platforms, no problems. I think a 680x0 FreeBSD port would be a neat thing; you could easily leverage the NetBSD work for most of it. For that matter, NetBSD runs on iMacs (PPC); Doug Ambrisko uses netbooting to boot them up occasionally around here. Come to think of it, Whistle has rather an "in" with I.B.M. for things like RS/6000 and other equipment as well, these days, seeing as I.B.M. owns us... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message