Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 02:14:17 +0000 From: "Paolo Di Francesco" <paipai@tin.it> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... Message-ID: <19981210011112.EMA26585.fep01-svc@winworkstation>
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> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Will someone with more courage and experiance than I please speak up about
> > this, perhaps contact sun?
>
> Please _don't_ ask Sun for anything until you have a working port on
> limited hardware. I doubt that anyone following this list would be
> prepared to spend $$$ based on what has been said so far. Those people
> who have access to Sun machines should be able to do a port with neither
> financial nor moral support from Sun. If you want this sort of support,
> you have to earn it.
Let me explain the meaning of the word "support" from my personal point of
view:
1) I haven't any Sun Hardware. I'm a student and I cannot pay 3000$ for a Sun
Ultra5, only to "play" with it. I would have an AXi motherboard (good for
experiments) but it costs too much. So, for the hardware I would have something
like 50% of the price (no free hardware, at actual stage). Why Sun could give
me/us this: I have not 3000$, and actually there are few persons with an Ultra
box, so _if_ Sun wants more developers on this project they must help in some
way. This is the situation it's not "charity"... Please note also the word
"Open" also means: I can buy it for a good price.
2) Docs, pdf and other things.... On Intel you can find _anything_ about "how
it boots", "how it works", books and docs. If you go in a bookstore you can
find many books about "everything". Not the same situation on Sparc.
So again: "Open" means I can read "how it works" without paying 500$...
3) Moral support. Actually, if Sun (SME) will put something on-line about the
harware we can do a good job (something that works/boots on limited hardware)
with no moral support. We can do experiments where "I don't know how it works"
and read where "it's documented at page..."
Thanks for youe time 8)
Ciao Ciao
Paolo Di Francesco
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