On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Robert Watson wrote:
> Part of the "real answer" is probably that IBM or a large consumer of
> S/390 machines has to shepherd the whole process to make it happen, and
> that probably involves a moderate amount of money, and moderate levels of
> frustration. If you can provide access to the first and survive the
> second, then you can certainly make this a reality. If not, well, it
> would be nice to see it happen but the task is to identify someone who can
> provide these.
>
> Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
If memory serves me right, the way Linux S/390 support came about was that
a team of S/390 enthusiasts start working on an S/390 port. After a year
or so, they were almost done. At this point an internal IBM team
submitted a set of patches that they had been working on, supplanting the
efforts of the enthusiast team.
Hence, perhaps the best approach is just to do a really good job of making
it look like a FreeBSD S/390 port is being done. If this is successfully
pulled off, IBM will actually end up doing the real work.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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