From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 21 04:57:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23405 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 04:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sunny.bahnhof.se (sunny.bahnhof.se [193.44.91.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA23398; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 04:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@bahnhof.se) Received: from metro (metro.bahnhof.se [193.44.91.2]) by sunny.bahnhof.se (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA16988; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:56:31 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:56:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christopher Arnold X-Sender: chris@metro To: Terry Lambert cc: Jason Beazell , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp ?? In-Reply-To: <199809202221.PAA03897@usr04.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > What versions of Freebsd support smp? A friend of mine, and Freebsd user, > > tells me that there is a patch for 2.2.7, but I can't find it anywhere. > > The initial work on SMP was done by Jack Vogel, of Sun Microsystems, > who also did a SPARC port ofr FreeBSD 1.1.5. > Does this mean that we have an FreeBSD 1.1.5 that would boot on sparc? I guess this would contain usefull information about how to bootstrap an effort on getting an later version of FreeBSD running on SPARC. Does anyone have more info about the 1.1.5 SPARC port? /chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 21 06:04:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA02925 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from artemis.syncom.net (artemis.syncom.net [206.64.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA02918 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@artemis.syncom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by artemis.syncom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA29725; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:16:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Youse To: Christopher Arnold cc: Terry Lambert , Jason Beazell , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Christopher Arnold wrote: > I guess this would contain usefull information about how to bootstrap an > effort on getting an later version of FreeBSD running on SPARC. Probably not, as 1.1.5 was much closer to the 4.4BSD-Lite sources than 2.x or 3.x will be. That's not much more useful than, say, bootstrapping via NetBSD. Chuck Youse cyouse@syncom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 21 14:18:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09294 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09222 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA19186; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:17:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Christopher Arnold cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: smp ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:56:59 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:17:44 -0400 Message-ID: <19182.906412664@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christopher Arnold wrote in message ID : > Does this mean that we have an FreeBSD 1.1.5 that would boot on sparc? I don't believe it got that far. > I guess this would contain usefull information about how to bootstrap an > effort on getting an later version of FreeBSD running on SPARC. You'd be better with NetBSD/SPARC ... at least they are also 4.4BSD derrived, not 4.3Net2... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 21 15:12:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22768 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22574 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27244; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:10:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd027205; Mon Sep 21 15:10:22 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17907; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:10:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809212210.PAA17907@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: smp ?? To: cyouse@artemis.syncom.net (Charles Youse) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:10:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chris@bahnhof.se, tlambert@primenet.com, panic@antix.org, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Charles Youse" at Sep 21, 98 09:16:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I guess this would contain usefull information about how to bootstrap an > > effort on getting an later version of FreeBSD running on SPARC. > > Probably not, as 1.1.5 was much closer to the 4.4BSD-Lite sources than 2.x > or 3.x will be. That's not much more useful than, say, bootstrapping via > NetBSD. Actually, 1.1.5 was based on 4.3 BSD (the Net/2 release). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 21 15:15:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24131 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:15:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23878; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24396; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:14:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd024290; Mon Sep 21 15:14:18 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18188; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:14:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809212214.PAA18188@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: smp ?? To: chris@bahnhof.se (Christopher Arnold) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:14:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, panic@antix.org, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Christopher Arnold" at Sep 21, 98 01:56:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > What versions of Freebsd support smp? A friend of mine, and Freebsd user, > > > tells me that there is a patch for 2.2.7, but I can't find it anywhere. > > > > The initial work on SMP was done by Jack Vogel, of Sun Microsystems, > > who also did a SPARC port ofr FreeBSD 1.1.5. > > Does this mean that we have an FreeBSD 1.1.5 that would boot on sparc? It means Jack Vogel has a 1.1.5 that would boot on a SPARC. It was never committed to the FreeBSD repository, only partly because of the BSDI troubles that rendered 1.1.5 subject to controversy with USL. Part of it was also source tree organization changes that FreeBSD was unwilling to make at the time, to accommodate multiple architectures. > I guess this would contain usefull information about how to bootstrap an > effort on getting an later version of FreeBSD running on SPARC. You would be better of starting with NetBSD or OpenBSD at this time; the source code is closer to FreeBSD. > Does anyone have more info about the 1.1.5 SPARC port? You could always contact Jack directly. His email address is in the -hackers list archives; all you have to do is search for it. I expect that after the loaner SMP box that he had used for development was "repossesed", he gained a dislike for the FreeBSD community. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 21 15:36:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29874 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from artemis.syncom.net (artemis.syncom.net [206.64.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29805 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@artemis.syncom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by artemis.syncom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA11734; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:48:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:48:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Youse To: Terry Lambert cc: chris@bahnhof.se, panic@antix.org, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smp ?? In-Reply-To: <199809212210.PAA17907@usr04.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, 1.1.5 was based on 4.3 BSD (the Net/2 release). Silly me. 1.1.5 was only a hop, a skip and a jump away from 386BSD. In any case, my original point still stands. [Though now my interest is piqued; I'd like to see Net/2 on a SPARC]. Chuck Youse cyouse@syncom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message