Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 22:25:36 +1200 From: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: 32-bit sparc port Message-ID: <19990701222536.C29967@patho.gen.nz>
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Hi, From recent archives it looks like there's a few people with some vintage sparc hardware to throw at a 32-bit porting attempt. Just thought I'd throw up my hand too -- I have an IPX running OpenBSD 2.5 on my desk at home, and there will be a SPARC Classic joining it in the next couple of weeks. I'm more than happy for only one of these boxes to work at any point in time :) I'd consider myself an adequate (possibly competent :) programmer, but I've never attempted to cross-compile a single line of code. However, I should have some time in the next six months or so, since I'm on a bit of a wind-down at work waiting for a visa so we can move countries, and my pregnant wife is asleep for most of the time so I'm bored in the evenings :) In other words, if other people might be able to chip in the occasional word of encouragement and/or advice, I'm quite happy to trudge around doing some legwork. This is probably a particularly naive thing to ask, but is there any general info describing basic approaches to porting *BSD between architectures? I've had a wander around, but I can't find anything on the NetBSD or OpenBSD web pages. I'll have a trawl through the alpha mailing list archives in the mean time. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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