From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 26 14:39:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA04305 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:39:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04280 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id KAA12487 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:48:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA25369; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:26:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611261826.LAA25369@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: IBM 57SLC To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:26:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, kegrotla@korrnet.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Nov 25, 96 09:15:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : > Oh by the way i have heard a rumour that MAC PowerPCs will support > : > FreeBSD. Any truth to this. That would be just totally awsome. Running > : > FreeBSD on a RISC chip machine. > : > : I think it's false. I've certainly not heard of any plans to do this. > > Oh, I just realized that NetBSD just had a whole slug of Power PC > stuff checked into it. I don't know which machines they support at > this time, but that might be a reasonable alternative. The stuff I've seen uses the ROM's. It's an interesting science project, but it's not port until it has native drivers that don'e single-thread all computation on the machine pending I/O completion. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.