From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 6 7:10:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F914156E8 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA04350; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:09:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:09:24 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Terry Lambert Cc: kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) In-Reply-To: <199910052116.OAA17594@usr08.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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. > 'Neat'? Definately. But that is mostly besides the point. > 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-). > PPC and 68xxx are whole different worlds. PPC port would definately be nice. Esp. one supporting a wide range of different PPC processors (within the limits that these have MMU, etc.) > > 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