Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:30:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: BSD Bob <bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Cc: heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199909031630.MAA01804@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>; from BSD Bob on Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 12:30:29PM -0400 References: <37CFC28D.7063AF7A@post.rwth-aachen.de> <199909031630.MAA01804@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
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On Friday, 3 September 1999 at 12:30:29 -0400, BSD Bob wrote: >> BSD Bob wrote: >> >>> Hello.... >>> >>> I have been running FBSD for about 5 years, and am relatively comfortable >>> with it on x86 machines. But, I also run several sparcs of various >>> flavors, at home. What is the status of the FBSD Sparc port? >> >> Bob, >> >> The FreeBSD Sparc mailing list has been a bit quiet recently - people on >> holiday or too busy etc. I can only really speak for myself here, since I'm >> not in regular contact with anyone else on this list, but it seems that most >> people (me included) are still getting clued up ie. looking for doco. I've >> read a lot of the "The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD lite >> operating system" book and have got hold of the Sparc hardware manual plus >> other docs from Sun about writing device drivers which contain hardware >> details. By the way, I'm talking about the Sparc32 port, NOT Ultrasparc! >> What would help me (and maybe others on the list) is an answer to the >> following questions: > > I run veddy dinosaur sparcs, so the 32bit is fine for me. > >> 1) Is it better/more sensible to use the NetBSD code or even Linux stuff to >> find out how to do things or is it better to get your own docs and solve the >> problem yourself? Personally, I'd much prefer to "roll our own", although >> it's probably far more work and considerably more difficult. However, we'd >> all learn more that way. Anyone have any ideas on this? > > My preference would be to look at 1) the 4.4BSD code for the sparc > release (anyone got a source license from SCO that could touch base > on that?), I can help there. I plan to have an SS5 in the near future, and I'll try to bring 4.4BSD up on that. Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, ROM, and memory size. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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