From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 8 16: 4:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C0D37B402; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2908k920147; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:08:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:08:44 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: re@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" ) Message-ID: <20020308190844.C17591@locore.ca> References: <20020308205110.Q676-100000@teabag.cbhnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:33:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apparently, On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:33:28PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn said words to the effect of; > >On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Murray Stokely wrote: > > > As discussed at BSDCon, the release engineers are committed > > > to releasing a relatively stable snapshot of FreeBSD -CURRENT > > > on or around April 1, 2002. > > Will this release include some kind of bootable-install support > for any new hardware platforms, such as sparc64? (this snapshot > is meant to be available as some kind of CD-package, right?) Yes, absolutely. I'm really excited that the sparc64 port is ready to be part of this. It will probably not be a regaular freebsd release, there will be (already is) a bootable iso that has all the tools needed to install a distribution from a tarball quickly and easily (the cd boots multi user). There will be a self hosted toolchain which can be used to build a custom kernel. This can also be used to build userland and ports natively, but make buildworld may not work. I will be cutting another iso this weekend which fixes a couple problems with the first one. Anyone who has a sparc64 machine is invited to subscribe to the freebsd-sparc mailing list and be testers for the first semi-official fresbsd/sparc64 release. . Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message