FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success

Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by throwawaylinux on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:53PM (#36610976)

> It's the same reason why porting to obscure CPUs can be useful: DEC Alpha was never popular, but supporting it kind of forced Linux to be 64-bit clean in some ways, so when amd64 came along there was already a bunch of infrastructure in place.

Nitpick (and you didn't necessarily imply otherwise), but x86-64 was a latecomer to 64-bit ports in Linux. SPARC I think was next after Alpha, and MIPS, PARISC, IA64, PowerPC at least all came before x86-64 was merged.

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Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by IntelMiner on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:26AM (#36612910)

Wasn't the Alpha port the first chip it was ported to back in the 1990's? I know the Amiga people did their own thing but I don't think it was ever properly merged back upstream

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Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by throwawaylinux on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:37AM (#36614307)

First 64-bit CPU, second CPU of course after 386. Which I guess you mean.

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Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success by IntelMiner on Sunday July 09, 2023 @02:24PM (#36657344)

I mean you can't "port" something to its first CPU. You'd be writing it for that CPU initially

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