Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:30:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <20030225173039.GB94451@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3E5464D3.F3B75FD7@freebsd.org> References: <166439.1045677133482.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <3E5464D3.F3B75FD7@freebsd.org>
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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
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