Hi Charlie, Please note that the sender of the original post isn't subscribed to this mailing list (although he hasn't mentioned it in his post unfortunately) - forwarding this your post in Cc: now; I'll forward the other too without including the list.
Tomas ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] FPC for FreeBSD/PowerPC From: "Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)" <char...@scenergy.dfmk.hu> Date: Tue, August 8, 2017 12:32 To: "FPC developers' list" <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> Hi, On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, Curtis Hamilton wrote: > I'm interested to know if there has been work on fpc for > FreeBSD/PowerPC. I'm interested in the status and helping maintain fpc > for this platform. FreeBSD for PowerPC never existed in FPC (it's not even in the internal platform list, only FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/x86-64). It's certainly possible to add it though, especially if someone steps up as a regular maintainer. I was recently thinking to revive and bring NetBSD for PowerPC support up to speed, after recently fixing/reviving NetBSD for m68k. But to be honest, even the far more popular x86_64 and i386 versions seem to need some love, and I'd say that probably also goes for FreeBSD (Marco? Any comments?). Maybe these efforts can be combined. I never ran FreeBSD before, I might have the hardware for the PowerPC version tho'. Does it run on one of the following: Mac mini G4, PowerBook G4 (5,6), PowerMac QuickSilver G4, bPlan Pegasos II G4? The main problem that most of the BSD and Unix platforms have a quite entangled backend in the FPC RTL (and even Darwin is considered a BSD in this case), so there's a high risk that one can break something else while fixing a certain platform, and most of it uses a quite old COMPAT syscall interface. So mapping up what's there and how to fix it for the future is the difficulty, while not breaking other Unices and BSDs in the process. :) But otherwise it's definitely doable. Cheers, -- Charlie _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel