Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:07:57 -0600 From: Erik Cameron <ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu> To: Chuck Youse <cyouse@icon.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones Message-ID: <19981118090757.C6935@bsd.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <98111809130300.02392@windsock.flyboy.net>; from Chuck Youse on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:11:52AM -0500 References: <sa690h9ns4v.fsf@adimus.de> <98111809130300.02392@windsock.flyboy.net>
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On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:11:52AM -0500, Chuck Youse wrote: > 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. One kernel is insufficient if you're not releasing source code. I mean, if we're talking about going through and isolating all of the (i386|alpha) code out of the kernel and concentrating our rewrites on that, I don't see as how (other than more coding) having separate sun4x and sun4u directories in the dist would be *that* much trouble. -e -- erik cameron -- bsd/is support services support engineer, unix frood, sysadmin, etc. ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu -- pager #4167 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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