Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:18:49 -0400 From: Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org> To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc ideas Message-ID: <20000531111849.A5766@trump.amber.org> In-Reply-To: <p04320402b55a9fd27e96@[193.82.131.28]>; from Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:55:33AM %2B0100 References: <200005310005.e4V05gM17560@intel.linux-florida.com> <p04320402b55a9fd27e96@[193.82.131.28]>
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Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com [Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com] wrote: > At 2000-05-30 20:05 -0400, Christopher A Shepherd wrote: > > >Haven't seen a lot of traffic on this list, but I'd like to add support to > >the idea of porting FreeBSD over to the powerpc. To this end, a lot of work > >has already been done for us (yes I know, we don't just want to recycle > >code), specifically.. > > Don't forget Apple Darwin OS > <http://publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/>. Presumably Apple > know a lot about their own hardware and have written good drivers for > it. This brings up a point I haven't seen addressed---or I'm just not looking enough. What platforms are we intending to support. One of the reasons that LinuxPPC was able to get up and running without major Apple information was that they restricted themselves to PCI machines. This is obviously one restriction. The other would be do we want to restrict ourselves to the same set of machines that Darwin is basically restricted to (G3 and above, I believe). As an Apple developer, it's killing some of your market, but... at least initially it should enormously simplify the effort of getting support running. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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