Several groups of people have expressed interest in working on
multi-architecture ports for FreeBSD and the FreeBSD/AXP (ALPHA)
port is one such effort which has been quite successful, now
available in 3.0 SNAPshot release form at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/alpha. The ALPHA
port currently runs on a growing number of ALPHA machine
types, among them the AlphaStation, AXPpci, PC164, Miata and Multia
models. This port is not yet considered a full release and won't be
until a full compliment of system installation tools and a distribution
on CDROM installation media is available, including a reasonable
number of working ports and packages.
FreeBSD/AXP should be considered BETA quality software at this
time. For status information, please join the
<freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
mailing list.
Interest has also been expressed in a port of FreeBSD to
the SPARC architecture, join the <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG>
mailing list if you are interested
in joining that project. For general discussion on new architectures,
join the <freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG>
mailing list.