Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:42:05 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>, core@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some advice about FreeBSD UltraSPARC port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812101035190.27793-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <29826.913282632@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I say this because I'm frankly a little surprised to hear that there's > any interest at all there given that I'd have thought that backing > Solaris and Linux as the two "official" Unix OSes for the SPARC would > be enough for any company (not that I agree, but I'm a realistic here) > and I'd be very curious to know why they want to back FreeBSD as well. > If it's for all the right and enlightened reasons we're already > familiar with then rah rah rah and full speed ahead, let's go for it. > If it's for the wrong reasons, or insufficiently clarified reasons, > then I'd be afraid of things falling through unexpectedly the same way > they did last time Sun talked about backing FreeBSD on the SPARC. > That's my only reservation. I'm unsure of previous politics, but I know everyone loved sunOS 4.1.x (Well except the non-DNS comliance thing :) ) a *cough* 4.3BSD based system. > > > please feel free to jump in and correct me. At the moment it looks like we > > have the toolchain to do cross-compilation from x86 to sparc64-elf with > > the beginning of a port of the MD parts of the kernel. It's not much, but > > You'll want to look into egcs 1.1.1 then - it will in all likelyhood > form the basis of the compiler technology which you'll actually be > using by the time that the sparc port is ready to join -current (if > all goes well that is). Jordan, do you have any contacts at cygnus that you could refer us to? I recently got egcs111 and bin291 to generate a crosscompiler/toolchain suite, however i noticed that almost all the patches from the ultralinux camp never made it into egcs111. I'm a bit confused at this, i could manually apply the diffs but that might make it worse. Clues/pointers? Has anyone here verified egcs111 on sparc64 to produce at correct code? Or at least used it on a small project and can give an opinion? Thanks, -Alfred > > Thanks for the status report, and sorry if I sound negative here, it's > just that I don't want people to get their hopes up and dashed again > here. If Sun's (more) solidly behind this then so am I. > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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