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FreeBSD s/390 Port in the works

Posted by timothy on from the very-beginnings dept.

brad-x writes: "It appears that an enterprising gentleman has taken the time to port FreeBSD to the s/390. It needs some work yet, as his project page suggests, but if he makes it happen it will definitely be very cool. Check it out!"

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  1. Does this mean that... by j-turkey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since the S/390 is a pretty parallel architecture...does this mean that the FreeBSD kernel is getting better at SMP?

    Does it run with more than 2 processors on the 390?

    Is the 2 CPU limitation an X86-only thing that I'm ignorant of (quite possible)?

    That's not to say that I don't love the BSD's, but they do have (or maybe they had) their limitations.


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  2. Re:I wonder what it would be like ... by Jay+Maynard · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Before people get too excited about topics such as SMP, kernel threads, and I/O devices -- it only partially boots
    Yeah...the project isn't to the point where it's usable for anything but system hacking yet.

    on a mainframe emulator.
    If it runs on Hercules, it'll run on the real hardware. Before you pooh-pooh the use of an emulator, consider that Alan Cox uses Hercules for S/390 work (not all of it, but quite a bit).

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