Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 04:20:47 -0400 From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Strongarm? Message-ID: <199810200922.EAA02322@quark.ChrisBowman.com> In-Reply-To: <199810190636.AAA20131@harmony.village.org> References: <Your message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:23:25 BST."<362A402D.BBB2DD30@ix.netcom.com> <362A402D.BBB2DD30@ix.netcom.com>
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At 12:36 AM 10/19/98 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <362A402D.BBB2DD30@ix.netcom.com> David Feustel writes: >: Any chance of a StrongARM port for FreeBSD? > >Yes. If someone does it :-) > >: How much x86-specific code is in FreeBSD? > >It varies. In places it is completely OS neutral, and even 64 bit >clean. In others there are grotty little i386isms that dog your every >step. If you were trying to build a userland version of >FreeBSD/StrongARM, in a cross compiler environment, I'd guess that it >would take about 2-6 weeks of effort, depending on how cross the cross >environment is. It would also help if you used a *BSD/StrongARM >kernel + FreeBSD userland. This worked well with the Alpha port, plus >at least one other port that is still in the development stages. Exactly what other port would this be? >As for the kernel, I don't know much about StrongARM, so I can't say >on that. I once estimated the kernel porting time to a MIPS machine >to be on the order of 3 man months, give or take, but that was before >the alpha stuff went into the kernel. It would likely take less now, >assuming that the StrongARM has a decent MMU or MMU-like thing. > >Warner > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com http://www.ChrisBowman.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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