Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:54:57 +0200 From: Robert Drehmel <robert@gizmo.quizbot.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: just some questions on the port status Message-ID: <3AD89D01.E1313429@gizmo.quizbot.org> References: <XFMail.010414104246.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> > 4) The port will be split up into sparc[v8] and sparc[v9|64], right? > > *shrug* Depends on what code we get. Some people would prefer that we just do > sparc64 and not even bother with sparc 8. If you want to work on the port, go > for it. :) It simply needs people to work on it. There *really* should be two ports. In the archives I read that the FreeBSD project isn't interested in `hobby-ports'. I agree with this, but it doesn't hurt to let people provide their `hobby-ports' as long as the rest of the kernel is designed without respect for older hardware. I'd port for/to V9, but I don't have a UltraSparc to develop on right now. ( I'm trying to get one, but they aren't cheap here in Germany. ) Another point is code sharing and storage. Few to none people actually write code at the moment, so the port gets rather puzzled together. A (separate) CVS repository would be great, (we use one for documentation translation in the FreeBSD German Documentation Project) as this offers several advantages: 1) One could commit code that is far from being usable and someone else completes this work then. 2) Nobody screams when the changes are backed out many times or the repository is bloated in other ways. 3) People that aren't commiters on freefall can commit stuff that is collected by a commiter and checked into the FreeBSD repository regularly. 4) There would be a code base on which people could work and submit code to. You don't have to guess where the current code can be found. Assuming nobody started with that, I'll play around with the pmap module (pmap.c). ciao, -robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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