rename to freebsd-powerpc?

[David Leimbach]

I think we are bike-shedding :).

I am guilty as well.

Dave
On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 11:01 AM, Aron J. Silverton wrote:

> 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.
>>> 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.
>
> Looking at two recent internal invoices on my desk, I see that we 
> refer to the chips as both PPC and PowerPC.  I agree with Benno and 
> DES, however, with regards to changing the name of the list.  For my 
> part, I'll probably continue to type PPC in conversation, though. ;-)
>
> I like the idea of keeping it as -powerpc as opposed to 
> differentiating between, for example, CompactPCI, MVME, Motorola, IBM, 
> Apple, Artesyn, or other distint PowerPC-based boards.  Isn't that 
> what NetBSD does? It's probably not necessary here.  I'd rather just 
> list the supported boards and architectures as a subset of 
> FreeBSD-PowerPC.
>
> Of course I have yet to contribute to the effort, so feel free to 
> ignore me.  I do hope to contribute real soon now.
>
> Aron
>
> -- 
> Aron J. Silverton
> Senior Staff Research Engineer
> Motorola Laboratories, Networks and Infrastructure Research
> Motorola, Inc.
>