Current development status of FreeBSD MIPS and how to contribute?

[Randall Stewart]

Yep.. like I said lots of contributors.. and we
all in general hang out on #bsdmips..

Of course you are our ring leader ;-D

R
On Jan 17, 2010, at 5:13 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> cCan gIn message: <44C3FEF4-A572-42C4-8032-62A17A4239A6 at lakerest.net>
>            Randall Stewart <rrs at lakerest.net> writes:
> : Good to here from you ;-)
> :
> : Well our general conspirator and coordinator is
> :
> : bsdimp.. imp at freebsd.org aka Warner Losh.
>
> Don't forget gonzo at freebsd.org Oleksandr Tymoshenko and
> wkoszek at freebsd.org Wojciech Koszek as well.a
>
> : 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.
>
> There's also good support for the Atheros AR71xx processors, the
> ADM5120 processors and a few others.
>
> Warner
>
> : 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
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