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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.uni-c.dk!pope.edunet.dk!user From: pope@edunet.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: port to PowerPC? Date: 15 Jan 1996 09:54:07 GMT Organization: edu! Lines: 38 Message-ID: <pope-1501961057350001@pope.edunet.dk> References: <4d6390$122@news.eecs.umich.edu> <4d9aof$5rl@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pope.edunet.dk In article <4d9aof$5rl@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) wrote: :In article <4d6390$122@news.eecs.umich.edu>, :Peter M. Chen <pmchen@life.eecs.umich.edu> wrote: :>Is there a port of NetBSD going on to a PowerPC-based platform? No mention :>of it in the NetBSD "list of supported platforms". : :Sure. It won't appear in the 'list of supported platforms' until it's a :supported platform, though. : :In fact, I've heard of work in progress for NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. :I think that most of the work is going toward the Motorola machines (for :various reasons), but much of the code should be reusable on other systems. : :I'm working with the PowerMac 8500, myself, but I'm still in the :"let's see if I can get it to netboot 'hello, world'" stage... ;-) I got a 7200 myself, and I am interested in NetBSD as well. I don't know much about the low level stuff on the PMac, but I knows a lot about 68k assembler, and the Mac toolbox. I am also running Linux on a PC here, with about 70 users now. But usually no more than 35 a day. Played with Minix and NetBSD on my Mac SE/30 back in time. :I'm sure that there will be announcements in the .announce newsgroups :when there is something sufficiently ready for testing and info will go :up on the web site in "supported platforms" when there is a supported :platform. ;-) : :Which platform are you interested in? I am interested in PowerMac. And I might help getting stuff running. -- Povl H. Pedersen - pope@edunet.dk Macintosh / Unix / Win (aaargghh) programmer - System Administrator Microsoft philosophy since 1984: Why innovate when you can immitate