From owner-freebsd-ppc Wed Nov 20 16:50:35 2002 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 11D1937B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gt3.OntheNet.com.au (nt.com.au [203.13.70.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B094B43E88 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:50:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (CPE-203-45-245-212.qld.bigpond.net.au [203.45.245.212]) by gt3.OntheNet.com.au (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id gAL0pqa46887; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:51:54 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3DDC2D9E.53693962@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:49:34 +1000 From: Peter Grehan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ajs@labs.mot.com Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CompactPCI PPC platforms References: <3DDC2762.4050400@labs.mot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi Aaron, > I'm guessing that one would need kernel support for > the PCI bridge chips used on the various host and peripheral boards and > support, if not already available, for the onboard disks and various > other peripheral interfaces which may use a particular chipset not > common on desktops or notebooks. That's right, and also boot loader work to support the ROMs on your boards (PPCBUG ?). > How far does the current FreeBSD-PPC implementation have to go until it > would be ready for this type of work? A reasonable amount. The initial goal is to have a stable system on Apple hardware, and then to start supporting embedded platforms. > How much, if any, of the NetBSD PPC implementation is being integrated > into the FreeBSD implementation? NetBSD was the starting point, although it's diverging quite a bit due to the differences in kernel internals (e.g. 5.0 interrupt threads). > I may have some PICMG 2.16 equipment including G4 equipped boards > available next year. They would not be available for full-time > development, but if I can manage to get some additional disks for the > boards, I'm hoping to be able to swap them for the "production boards" > when I'm not using the chassis for my normal work. Sounds like a fun project :-) later, Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message