On 12/4/14, 6:53 AM, Brad Smith wrote:
On 12/04/14 07:05, Alan McKay wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Vivek Vinod <vi...@icanconnect.com>
wrote:
We have been using Mikrotik routerboards since 7 years
Huh? With OpenBSD on them?
There are 3 PowerPC based RouterBOARDs. AFAIK the RB600 is supported
at the moment by the socppc port.
The RB800 and RB850Gx2 boards would probably be relatively easy to add
support for.
I wish. :-( They both have e500v2 PowerPC cores in them, which have a
different floating point unit from the e300 (the core supported by
socppc), meaning the powerpc binaries shared by socppc and macppc can't
run on those boards... never mind the Book E changes required in the
kernel.
Later Power cores (e500mc, e5500, e6500) revert the FPU, so I think
they 'should' be able to share arch/powerpc binaries, but a) nobody
(including me) has done the necessary work in the kernel to run on
them, and b) I'm not aware of hardware such as RouterBoards that use
the newer cores.
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Matthew Weigel
hacker
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