Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:28:02 +0100 From: Song Li <lisong@stanford.edu> To: Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current development status of FreeBSD MIPS and how to contribute? Message-ID: <eb5a58bd1001171728y561d661dn421a7c1e01decc22@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44C3FEF4-A572-42C4-8032-62A17A4239A6@lakerest.net> References: <eb5a58bd1001171618i487086c2n59dc1391ee39a532@mail.gmail.com> <44C3FEF4-A572-42C4-8032-62A17A4239A6@lakerest.net>
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Thank you for the quick reply. It seems that the mailing list is active!! Sorry I know nothing about RMI/XLR. I am generally interested in porting the whole system instead of individual packages. By that I mean, porting the set of all commonly used applications like what the current FreeBSD 8.0 x86 release contains. Sorry I might be too ignorant about OS porting to be realistic -- never done that before. I surely have the GXEmul but I also have a real hardware, Loongson, which is relatively new with not so competitive performance but hopefully it will be better in the future. Yes, I am from the bay area but I am currently in German. I may come back in a few weeks though. We can surely meet then if you also live nearby. Where do you live? cheers, Song On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> wrote: > Song Li: > > Good to here from you ;-) > > Well our general conspirator and coordinator is > > bsdimp.. imp@freebsd.org aka Warner Losh. > > Warner is currently working on the cavium. > > I am working in my spare time on RMI/XLR > > There are bunches of other folks as well that contribute we > can all be found on #bsdmips in IRC. > > What hardware do you have available to play with... since you are > at stanford you must be in the bay area ;-) > > If you want to meet some time let me know ;-D > > R > On Jan 17, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Song Li wrote: > >> Hi fellow gurus, >> >> May I ask who are actively involved in porting FreeBSD to MIPS? I am >> interested in working on it. May I ask how to contribute to the >> FreeBSD MIPS port? I checked the >> wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips but do not see much >> info there. What's the current plan/timeline? What hardware is it >> gonna support in a >> near future? Anywhere I can start from? Thanks. >> >> I have some experience working on FreeBSD kernels a few years ago >> (probably still FreeBSD 4.x at that time). I also worked with x86 and >> (teaching) ARM assmebly before. I have some general knowlege on >> assmebly language but limited knowledge on MIPS though. I have also >> experience on writing OS (more like at the toy/instructional level >> though) and the understanding of all the major concepts OS in general >> for sure. Is this good enough to start contributing? Or if not then >> any comments where I should catch up? Thanks. >> >> Best, >> >> Song >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > ------------------------------ > Randall Stewart > 803-317-4952 (cell) > 803-345-0391(direct) > >
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