From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 02:54:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02F116A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:54:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F3643D31 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:54:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.13.71.28] (CPE-71-28.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.13.71.28]) j2T2sinP075119; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:54:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4248C512.2030304@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:01:38 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mauro References: <1112064066.5879.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1112064066.5879.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-ppc on iMac G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:54:48 -0000 > It has been reported that X with accel works on the iMac DV or there > abouts. > How far is it from official release and ready for crucial work stations? It's a tier-2 platform. Can't say I'd be sure when it will make the transition to tier-1, except that the more people use it as is and give feedback the faster that will happen (hint, hint). > How does bsd-ppc compare lets say linux-ppc distros, such as debian-ppc > or ubuntu-ppc, in processing efficiency? It would be interesting to compare. I'd have to say that given some of innefficiencies in various code paths (syscall, context switch etc) in FreeBSD/PPC and the much longer amount of time and larger user base that Linux/PPC has, it would be no contest in their favour. > Also I noticed that there is no "Other platforms" that I believe was > existed and from which the ppc page link could be ascertained. Does > this reflect a change in official support? Don't ascribe links appearing/disappearing to anything other than the fact that I haven't gotten off my lazy a&$# to fix them :) later, Peter.