Current development status of FreeBSD MIPS and how to contribute?

[Song Li]

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 at lakerest.net> wrote:
> Song Li:
>
> Good to here from you ;-)
>
> Well our general conspirator and coordinator is
>
> bsdimp.. imp at 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
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