Date: 19 Mar 2002 12:53:54 +1200 From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr categories Message-ID: <1016499236.359.6.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> In-Reply-To: <20020319111128.E91646@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200203182356.g2INu4r80682@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020319000224.GA22582@electricjellyfish.net> <xzplmcpjtmw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <1016497744.359.1.camel@ratchet.jeamland.net> <20020319111128.E91646@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 12:41, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 19 March 2002 at 12:29:02 +1200, Benno Rice wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 12:20, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes: > >>> the powerpc port has a mailing list (freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org) > >> > >> Ah, I was looking for "freebsd-powerpc" since the platform is actually > >> called powerpc. I think it is a bad idea to use two different names > >> for it; we should either rename the mailing list to freebsd-powerpc or > >> rename sys/powerpc to sys/ppc. > > > > I'd prefer to change the mailing list name if anything. > > And I was going to say the opposite. FWIW, it's called ppc in the > Linux source tree. And since IBM persists in calling some of the > processors POWER, powerpc isn't that accurate either. PowerPC is what Motorola calls it, and that's essentially what the port's targetting right now. The IBM chips that it will support are derivatives of the Motorola architecture. I believe that IBM calls it's 4xx series PowerPC as well. The POWER chips (at least the current ones) are mostly 64-bit, IIRC. These will not be supported by this port, at least in it's current form. Just because Linux uses the wrong name for the architecture doesn't mean we should. =) -- Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjyWjCIACgkQXjRwWofFmQn/GQCfTUsTxMOC/eVAnRDo7wdKlgwz DcAAnR7LoxO2S+NTEwcywAjMF9CJH9Av =glUa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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