From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 23 16:45:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A0A37B5AF; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from softweyr.com ([208.187.122.225]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19935; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:44:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39A4637A.4186981B@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:51:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Darren Reed , mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Integration of Net/OpenBSD code (was Re: your mail) References: <98351.966803341@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > I also think the Alpha port was an important step for the project in > that it got us 64 bit clean well before the IA64 arrived and it > validated the concept that we could do something non-x86 based on an > ongoing basis. For the network appliance market, a important and > growing segment of what some of FreeBSD's core "PC interest group" is > morphing into, we need to get onto architectures like MIPS, PowerPC > and StrongARM and doing any sorts of non-x86 ports are good practice > for this. Yes, yes, yes. The order of importance varies widely, but the above three would pretty much cover the bases. Anyone interested in doing this kind of work full-time should contact me. Or BSDi, probably. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message