Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:11:52 -0500 From: Chuck Youse <cyouse@icon.com> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones Message-ID: <98111809130300.02392@windsock.flyboy.net> References: <sa690h9ns4v.fsf@adimus.de>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Christoph Haas wrote: >Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> writes: > >> This is to all those on the list, what i tried to strike up is for an >> ultra-sparc port, i won't be working on any other models. > >But what about all those users that have some sort of "old" hardware >at home (like SparcStations 10, 20, 5, 4 and so on) ? It's nice to >support only the latest hardware, but here I think this way would be >wrong. We should support both the "old" hardware baesd on sun4, sun4m, >sun4d and the Ultra-based machines. > > Christoph While support for sun4[mcd ] is a good thing, Kapil aptly pointed out that they really are a different architecture than the sun4u. To support both with one kernel is possible, but cumbersome at best. Better to separate the two. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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