Re: K42 OS

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 20, 2003, at 9:29 AM, Emiel Kollof wrote:

> * David Leimbach (leimy2k@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > As an employee of another company represented at SuperComputing 2003 I
> > say
> > "hello" :)
> >
> > As a person who has been "distantly interested" in K42 for the last
> > year or so I ask
> > if its still 64bit only :).  If so I wonder if you have it working on
> > the G5 yet as that is my only
> > 64bit platform.
>
> Well, It probably won't take too long until DragonFly can operate in 
> 64-
> bit mode on AMD64, since Matt owns one of these boxes.
>
> Interestingly (and slightly offtopic), what ever happened to the 
> FreeBSD
> PPC port and it's developers? Maybe we can lure these developers here 
> so
> they can port DFBSD to the PPC (and G5). ;) This might be interesting 
> to
> the IBM people too, since (as far as I can remember) RS6000 machines 
> are
> based on PPC as well. It would be very interesting if our beloved 
> insect
> could exploit it's future distributed capabilities on big iron.

FBSD PPC can netboot on my PowerBook to a point :).  There is some 
trouble
with my network card driver or something that prevents the NFS root 
partition being
mounted so I could do an install.

I think it will even do multi-user and has syscons support if you have 
a USB keyboard.

Other than that it works with the OpenFirmware framebuffer with the 
built in keyboard.

Dave

> Cheers,
> Emiel