From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 21:27:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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 C4E3C16A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:27:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmidaemon@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B058443D67 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:27:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmidaemon@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so536918wxc for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:27:51 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eixQyr2cf4cKFIphATnFYoYtKGbnZ4qcMZ4GvOuJaxTDCfJoZqN8BQ+nrJi8Fxf+5o0e5JzWcHd/dDTZUq7AzJMw8WISgWLMcUVdf12Nbl+AzLZIjzoKZUZkvq7vwBaI4YJcuBE/dvacjUqPBKkOBTDaBH5Kwff8OmxWJbL91O0= Received: by 10.70.21.18 with SMTP id 18mr13193241wxu; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.10.100? ( [70.20.117.58]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h16sm21938093wxd.2006.01.03.13.27.50; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:27:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43BAEC55.8010500@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:27:49 -0500 From: Jeff Isaac User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <43B747DF.8070303@gmail.com> <20060103040404.GC54882@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20060103040404.GC54882@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Any Updates on RS/6000 Support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:27:54 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: >On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:09:19PM -0500, Jeff Isaac wrote: > > >> I was just wondering whether there had been any developments >>regarding new plans for RS6k support? I found a brief exchange in the >>archives from March of 2004 saying that there were no plans to support >>this architecture. Has this changed at all? I would like to commend you >>folks on porting to the Mac/PPC systems as Apple will soon be abandoning >>we PowerPC devotees, >> >> > >We still have the entire G5 series (and Xserve also) from Apple to >progress thru before we're done with Apple HW. ;-) > > > Yes, I know, I know! :-) I am not at all trying to downplay the value of what you're doing, as I hope to keep my PPC hardware running for a good long time before I have to get a second mortgage on a house for a RS6000 workstation, but I am always one to like to know my options very very far in advance (yes, most sane people would call that "getting ahead of yourself") O:-) - Jeff