From owner-freebsd-ppc Tue Jan 2 8:49:32 2001 From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 08:49:30 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate3.austin.ibm.com (mg03.austin.ibm.com [192.35.232.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4910037B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 08:49:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.ibm.com (netmail1.austin.ibm.com [9.53.250.96]) by mailgate3.austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA54492 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:48:09 -0600 Received: from GATECH (gatech.austin.ibm.com [9.53.230.101]) by austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA78410 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:49:24 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:47:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time) From: Dwayne Grant McConnell To: Subject: Re: the abi In-Reply-To: <20010102012039.A31690@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: Dwayne McConnell/Austin/IBM@d04nm103.raleigh.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 08:21:27PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote: > The purpose of the PowerPC effort [at least mine] is not to complete with > Darwin and run on Mac's, but to provide a platform for PowerPC embedded > development. Those that push JKH and others hard for a PowerPC port want > it for use in the embedded market. The G4 would just be the reference > and development box -- but not the main use and target. > > I am not sure anyone will take the PowerPC port and polish it for desktop > or server use. So the only FreeBSD PowerPC port in progress right now is for embedded? Or are there multiple efforts ongoing? If a desktop/server port is in progress or occurs in the future would it also use the same ABI or a different one? -- Dwayne Grant McConnell work: dwayne@austin.ibm.com PowerPC Linux Team home: dgm69@austin.rr.com IBM Linux Technology Center notes: dwayne@us.ibm.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message