From owner-freebsd-ppc Tue Feb 25 9:30:42 2003 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 0C0F037B405 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D1C43F3F for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1PHUd2p094806 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1PHUdDK094805 for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:30:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:30:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <20030225173039.GB94451@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <166439.1045677133482.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <3E5464D3.F3B75FD7@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E5464D3.F3B75FD7@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > NetBSD supports pretty much every PowerMac model except the > original NuBus ones. OpenBSD supports the same model range > as OSX, which is G3+G4 machines. I suspect this will be the > target for FreeBSD as well. > > The unsupported G3 machines at the moment with FreeBSD are > the beige, B&W, and early iMacs. That should be rectified soon. That was the original goal for FreeBSD/PowerPC -- not to support every Mac on the plant. In fact not to even be a well polished support everything for the Mac thing. The big push and interest in PowerPC was for the embedded market. The choice of the Mac was only as a reference platform and a development platform. IMHO it is easier to target some PowerPC board when you can do the basic development on a PowerPC machine. Before we support anything other than G3/G4 we need to reflect on how well we can support more. FreeBSD has traditionally had a high requirement for polished support -- installable CDROM's, pre-build packages, etc... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message