Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:47:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time) From: Dwayne Grant McConnell <dwayne@austin.ibm.com> To: <freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the abi Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.31.0101021044590.796-100000@GATECH> In-Reply-To: <20010102012039.A31690@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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
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