Kai Wetlesen [kwetle...@mac.com] wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the current community interest in getting OpenBSD running on the > newer POWER processors? I have a number of POWER based systems at work which > run various Linux flavors, but it would be nice to bring OpenBSD to these > systems as we???re been trying it out in different spaces throughout our > division. What would it take to get a POWER port up and kicking? >
OpenBSD is moving ahead on armv7, arm64, and mips64 (loongson, octeon, sgi) as viable alternatives to i386/amd64. Other platforms are not well supported usually due to lack of available hardware and, therefore, developer interest. If you want to make it happen, hardware is needed. At a minimum, you need capable machines in the hands of several interested developers. That's the bare minimum. A code base with basic driver support, like macppc, socppc or peagsus is a major kick-starter, too. But those are old enough that they may not be very helpful with a non-Apple 64-bit PPC machine. Since there is little interest in this platform overall (from what I can tell), it would require a miracle for this to happen right now. Chris
