Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: David DeTinne <david@allunix.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008161429170.15910-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <75499.966459488@localhost>
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> > Jordan- what's the status of the BSDi merge && a sparc port? I sort of though > t > > that something that works would then "just arrive"? > > You mean the BSD/OS merge? Well, people have taken on the SMPng bits > and that project appears to be progressing nicely. Nobody has taken > on the SPARC bits, however, and I can only point out that lack of > reference SPARC bits from another BSD implementation has never been > the problem here. We've had both NetBSD and OpenBSD to serve that > purpose for a long time but nobody who actually wanted to do the work > step forward and do it. You've been around this biz long enough to > know that bits never "just arrive", they have to be carried in on a > stretcher and sent straight to triage. :) Well, since the SMP stuff seemed to have been assigned/self-assigned, I assumed that somebody else, like maybe Chris, would become the stretcher bearer to come in and bless FreeBSD with. I wasn't saying "arrived" as in "out of the ether comes protons...". I was saying arrived as in the majordomo tinkling a bell and announcing, "The countess BSDi/SPARC, with retinue" -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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