Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 11:27:24 +0200 (CEST) From: <chris@bahnhof.se> To: <sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Progress! or Progress? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110061113540.96330-100000@freebsd.xpedio.net>
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Hi all! Beeing one of those out there who belive that just a bootable system with wery limited IO support will kick some life into the Sparc port. I was wery glad to read this in the August 2001 status report: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-august-2001.html#FreeBSD/sparc64-port "Sparc64 development is still continuing rapidly and we're making some excellent progress. Of note, some problems with the way the pmap module implements copy-on-write mappings have been fixed and fork() now works as expected, support for signals has been added, and the port has been updated for kse in the perforce repository. Thomas Moestl has begun work on pci bus support, and a basic nexus bus for sparc64 has been written. The driver for the Sun `Psycho' and `Sabre' UPA-to-PCI bridges and associated code has been ported from NetBSD PCI configuration, I/O and memory space accesses do already work, as well as interrupt assignment and delivery for devices attached directly to the bridge, and the first PCI device drivers can attach and seem to work mostly. Interrupt routing and busdma support still need much work." So what does this mean? Is it possible to boot a kernel and actually execute some programs now? Is there any more information about how long the port has advanced out there? Really i dont want to intterupt the development with answering my stupid questions, so if you lack time for a lengthy text. Why not post the latest output from the system booting? Keep the good work up! /Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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