Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:08:15 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: PaceMakerTaker <pacemakertaker@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I wanna help test ... Message-ID: <20030619220815.GC64061@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030619195527.53032.qmail@web13904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030619195527.53032.qmail@web13904.mail.yahoo.com>
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PaceMakerTaker wrote this message on Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:55 -0700: > So I've got this 270MHz Ultra 5 here with 128 and 8GB > as well as a 500MHz Blade 100 with 512 and 40GB. I'd > love to get involved in the project now that I have > time! > > For starters, I guess I'd do some testing work since I > haven't been into the FreeBSD kernel yet (Although > I've been into the Linux kernel and the SunOS kernel). > I've been doing C/C++ coding for years. > > If someone wants to point me off in the direction of > the notes and installation files, I'll jump right now. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes-sparc64.html The cd is bootable, and simple to do. Works fine over serial console, that's how I got my box up and running. > I'm sure that there is a list of stuff that needs to > be tested and/or fixed, where can I find that at? Well, once you get 5.1-R installed, tracking current is good. You might still be able to get away with using 5.1-R but not for much longer since we're already starting to diverge. Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html for more information about it. -current is what you want to follow if you want to do some testing. > I'm anxious to help and a little bored here; so > anything I can do, let me know! Well, test the applications. Already there have been a few minor bugs in apps that were pretty easy to fix. As for other things, take a look at the archives of -sparc64 for the last week or two. Thomas Moestl has a patch that uses OFW to enumerate the PCI bus instead of probing it. I also have a patch to make Multi-Function devices probe. (Both patches address similar issues, but are also complementary.) Stay tuned to the list! -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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