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Add a mini-FAQ to the ppc port page. There's a hack in here for Benno's

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email address (I used </>) and it would be nice if it was fixed.

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PR: www/40060
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.2 2001/10/24 18:11:04 phantom Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v 1.3 2002/02/06 12:07:41 tom Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ppc Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ppc'>
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;]>
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<p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to the
PowerPC.</p>
<h3>FreeBSD/ppc Specific Links</h3>
<h3>General Information</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="mailto:freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
<li><a href="#list">FreeBSD/PowerPC mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="#doc">Documentation, White Papers, Utilities</a></li>
<li><a href="#links">Other links of interest</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Links of Interest</h3>
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>3 July, 2002</strong> : This page has been
significantly updated. FreeBSD/PowerPC currently boots almost to
the point of reaching single-user mode.</p></li>
<li><p>An older news list can be found on
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~benno/">Benno's page</a>,
and you can view the
<A HREF="http://jeamland.net/~benno/powerpc-boot.txt">bootup log</A>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<hr noshade>
<h3><a name="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="#1">What is the FreeBSD/PowerPC project?</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">What hardware are you targetting?</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">What is the current status?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">How can I acquire FreeBSD/PowerPC?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">Who should I contact?</a></li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="1">What is the FreeBSD/PowerPC project?</a></h4>
<p>FreeBSD/PowerPC is a port of the FreeBSD operating system
to computers with the PowerPC processor, most notably
recent Macintosh computers.</p>
<h4><a name="2">What hardware are you targetting?</a></h4>
<p>At the moment "New World" (i.e. colourful case)
Apple Macintoshes. Other platforms, such as older
PowerMacs and non-Apple computers using Open Firmware,
are expected to be targetted later on. </p>
<h4><a name="3">What is the current status?</a></h4>
<p>FreeBSD/PowerPC currently is on the verge of booting
to single-user mode.</p>
<h4><a name="4">How can I acquire FreeBSD/PowerPC?</a></h4>
<p>FreeBSD/PowerPC is mostly in cvs for -CURRENT.</p>
<h4><a name="5">Who should I contact?</a></h4>
<p>Benno Rice &lt;benno@FreeBSD.org&gt; is the project lead.
Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
to know about the status of this project, check this page
regularly or join the
<a href="#list">FreeBSD/PowerPC mailing list</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/PowerPC mailing list</a></h3>
<p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="
EMAIL">&#60;<a href="mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.org">majordomo@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
and include</p>
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
subscribe &lt;freebsd-ppc&gt; [&lt;optional address&gt;]
</pre>
in the body of your message.
<h3><a name="doc">Documentation, White Papers, Utilities</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/docs/MPCFPE32B.pdf">
PowerPC chip documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html">
"TN1061: Fundamentals of OpenFirmware, Part 1 - The User
Interface"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1062.html">
"TN1062: Fundamentals of OpenFirmware, Part 2 - The Device
Tree"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/hardware2.html">
Apple hardware developer docs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/psim/">
psim</A> - A PowerPC simulator, available as a
FreeBSD port at <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/emulators.html#psim-freebsd-5.2">/usr/ports/emulators/psim-freebsd</A>.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="links">Other Links of Interest</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/macppc/">NetBSD/macppc</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/macppc.html">OpenBSD/macppc</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/macppc.html">OpenBSD/macppc</a></li>
</ul>
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