FreeBSD on the GameCube? :)

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Jun 5 02:27:51 GMT 2004


On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:54:05PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> 
> > Does FreeBSD run on the PowerPC 750 yet? :) :)
> 
> I can't wait until it does.  There is a whole host of very cool industrial
> hotswappable CompactPCI boards that I would love to try out, but won't
> because FreeBSD isn't there yet.
> 
> Which leads me to my next question.  Does the adoption of FreeBSD for the
> basis of Darwin put us any closer to running FreeBSD on Motorola chips?
> 
> A non-hacker type like myself would think that Openfirmware issues and
> hardware portability issues (motorola is big-endian?) would already be
> understood.

Userland is the easy part, compared to getting a working kernel.

Kris
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