From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Oct 11 14:30:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from esperi.demon.co.uk (esperi.demon.co.uk [194.222.138.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D8237B403 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuchulainn.tirnanog (0@cuchulainn.tirnanog [192.168.1.68]) by esperi.demon.co.uk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f9BLO3E29401; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:24:04 +0100 Received: from localhost (kieran@localhost) by cuchulainn.tirnanog (8.9.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA02687; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:24:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:24:01 +0100 (BST) From: Kieran Barry X-Sender: kieran@cuchulainn.tirnanog To: chris@bahnhof.se Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Progress! or Progress? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 chris@bahnhof.se wrote: > Hi all! > > Beeing one of those out there who belive that just a bootable system with > wery limited IO support will kick some life into the Sparc port. I was > wery glad to read this in the August 2001 status report: > > So what does this mean? > > Is it possible to boot a kernel and actually execute some programs now? > > Is there any more information about how long the port has advanced out > there? > > Really i dont want to intterupt the development with answering my stupid > questions, so if you lack time for a lengthy text. Why not post the latest > output from the system booting? > > Keep the good work up! > Yes ... but ... where is the discussion of development taking place? Is it another mailing list, or private email? (Having read all this year's mail archives, I'll put my neck on the line and say it isn't here. Who's in charge of documenting _this project_? I get the feeling that this project's bottleneck is reading hardware specs. Are there any research problems that someone with time could look at? Regards Kieran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message