rename to freebsd-powerpc?

[Jens Rehsack]

On 5/15/2003 3:49 PM, Benno Rice wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 21:56, David Leimbach wrote:
>> Well is the goal to support "all" PowerPC or just Macintosh?
> 
> The goal is to be as generic as we can be.
> 
>> There are a ton of VME PowerPC boards out there and some
>> RS/6000s that might be able to run FreeBSD as well.
> 
> Yep.  The issue is getting someone with the time to do the work who has
> access to that hardware.

I have 2 IBM RS/6000 (pSeries) with 603e and 604 PowerPC processor and
as I wrote I would be glad to help. I will not completely remove aix,
because I need it for testing, but I'd love to see my favourite os
running on those ibm machines :-)

>> What is the goal of people on this list?   If its just mac-powerpc
>> perhaps that is the way to go?  Of course if Apple actually releases
>> a Mac based on PPC-970 [64 bit PPC CPU] then we might get more confusion
>> with Mac-PowerPC. :)
>> 
>> Technically I think PPC is fine, powerpc is better but it may not
>> really be more specific :).
> 
> And PPC is more specific?  PowerPC is the name of the specification that
> all of these processors follow, whether it's the 32-bit or 64-bit OEA
> specifications or the weird variants like the IBM 4xx's they're all
> called PowerPC.  Since we have a driver in the system called ppc which
> handles PC parallel port stuff, I've always made a concious effort to
> refer to the platform as powerpc rather than ppc.  It's also the name of
> the directory in which the arch-specific code resides.
> 
> The idea of the codebase is to support as many PowerPC platforms as we
> can, so I think that's the right name for it.

I know from Linux4PPC that the same boot cd which boots power macs boots
my machines, too. So it should be possible to be generic :-)

Cheers,
Jens