Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:09:40 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Lyndon Griffin <lgriffin@naviant.com> Cc: Christoph Haas <ch@adimus.de>, Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Sparc board, and clones Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811181109130.10312-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <001101be1305$9b416130$71e2f4cd@tchaikovsky.naviant.com>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Lyndon Griffin 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. > ------------------- > I want to expand... > > My input on developing only an UltraSPARC port is this: first off, the > knowledge floating around about the Ultras is, in my experience, a lot less > quantitative than information you can find about most "plain-old-SPARC" > chips. Take into account that there is a lot of work that has already been > done on sun4* architecture, in terms of other OS's, that is either GPL or > open source - providing this project with a broad base of knowledge to > borrow and build on. Finish off with I don't have an Ultra that I can use > for development yet, so my contribution to a project that is only UltraSPARC > is going to be nil. > > I don't think it is wrong to include Ultras in the port, but I believe it is > stupidity to disclude earlier SPARCs. > > Disagreements welcome. > > <:) L > sure, go ahead and do it. i'm not stopping you. :) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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