Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:53:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert S. Sciuk" <rob@ControlQ.com> To: Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status? Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.96.990622155055.10127Q-100000@fatlady.controlq.com> In-Reply-To: <19990622193909.FTOA17743.fep01-svc@harlock>
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Sorry Paolo ... I guess I hadn't seen any traffic and just assumed that you'd graduated, and moved on ... 8-) Yours, humbled ... Pancho Sanza Cheers, Rob. On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Paolo Di Francesco wrote: > > > ... and it lay in limbo until a student in > > Italy, Paolo DeFrancesco, took a Quixotic run at the project ... as the > > list has been silent for some time on the matter, I consider it a closed > > issue, but that is JUST my opinion 8-}. > > > Just to explain, sorry if someone will not be pleasead by this message. > > I tried to organize the work. I made a list with every developer > interested in the work (what he/she could do, hardware avaible, skills, > etc.), and documents about the problems in developing on a new platform > (what you need to start, where to start, which compiler to use, which > books, etc.) > > Now I don't consider my past work "Quixotic". My opinion is "if you want > to help developers, write docs how to do things". So this is why I tried > to start writing docs. > > Sorry, but I don't see anything "Quixotic" in my past work. > > > Jordan Hubbard has made some very lucid statements regarding the > > difficulty of supporting multiple hardware platforms, as well as > > About the kernel. My _personal_ opinion is kernel coding is easier with > a one-package approach (linux). But this is _my_ opinion. > > My _personal_ idea was to start with a base (light?) kernel to play > with. So conceptually you could start coding, to understand where the > problems were. _Then_ (when ready to start serious coding) apply the > ideas to the current tree. > > > misrepresenting ones self as a representative of the FreeBSD project when > > asking hardware vendors for support (ie: don't). > > About the "please support us" topic. I asked _if_ Sun wanted to support > us in this effort and if not why. It is too long explain the discussion, > but the conclusion is "no, Sun will not support us, and don't ask". > > What I asked for were _docs_. If you need to write code, you need to > know "how it works". > > > OpenBSD and NetBSD both work on 32 bit sparc ... I guess that's where > > we'll have to look for the near term. > > About platforms. Personally, I'm not interested in Sparc32. If I'll > spend time on sparc coding I'll do it on sparc64. > > If you are interested in sparc32 coding, do it. 8) touche' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robert S. Sciuk 1032 Howard Rd. PO Box 6A Ph:905 632-2466 Control-Q Research Burlington, Ont. Canada Fx:905 632-7417 rob@ControlQ.com L7R 3X5 http://www.ControlQ.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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