Subject: Re: Linux on PowerMac
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/06/1996 16:12:30
On Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:08:55 -0600 (CST)
Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org> wrote:
> Well, it seems to me that this is something of a contradiction... not to
> say that your information isn't correct, but isn't this really a Mach
> port with a Linux server on top?
That's sure what it looked like to me ... I think basically what they did
is make OSF MK 6.1 run on the PowerMac, and tweak their existing Linux
server that appears to already run on the x86.
> If that is the case, it should be relatively easy to take this work and
> put a BSD server on top of Mach, or better, a native BSD port.
BSD server on top of MK 6.1 is easy ... it's been done :-) One neat
thing about deriving a native NetBSD port from Mach sources is that, for
the most part, the pmap is done ... will probably just require some
tweaking. The rest might be a bit uglier, though.
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