Current development status of FreeBSD MIPS and how to contribute?

[Song Li]

Sure, will ping!

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Randall Stewart <rrs at lakerest.net> wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Song Li wrote:
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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.
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> RMI is an 8 core mips processor..
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>>
>> Sorry I might be too ignorant about OS porting to be realistic --
>> never done that before.
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>> 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?
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> When you get back give me a ping and we can chat
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> R
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Song
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Randall Stewart <rrs at lakerest.net> wrote:
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>>> Song Li:
>>>
>>> Good to here from you ;-)
>>>
>>> Well our general conspirator and coordinator is
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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