From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Apr 11 16: 8:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from fep08-svc.tin.it (pop04-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E1016344 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paipai@box4.tin.it) Received: from harlock ([212.216.239.52]) by fep02-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19990411222153.GCZX29810.fep02-svc@harlock>; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:21:53 +0200 From: "Paolo Di Francesco" To: Wes Peters , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:24:42 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [Re: Read this...] In-reply-to: <370F52EA.EE3A0C4@softweyr.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990411222153.GCZX29810.fep02-svc@harlock> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Hey, at least it's generating traffic. That's been the only post in here for > > months! :P > > I think of it as the freebsd-sparc keep alive packet. ;^) > Oh, well... Let's discuss about kernel. 8) Actually I don't know which is the best version to start experiments with... The 3.1 version could be a good candidate, but I have seen a 4.0 version in the -current tree... I have read the README in the 4.0 current to see what's new and what's not. Changed the compiler from gcc to egcs, so we can start "officially" developing with egcs. ;) Changed swap code, but I could be only C code ( I hope it is verry portable...) Added some hardware support. But, I don't know if 3.1 is a good investment. Will be the 3.X branch alive when (and if) the sparc port will be usable? I don't know. 8( Personally I think 4.0 is too young. So 3.1 could be a very interesting investment. About material I have buyed or ordered to start developing. I have a sparc box. It's a "private effort", so I can do every type of experiments. I have just received the Sun books (sparc assembly V9 manual and Panic) so I have started reading in my spare time ;) Now I have a more clear idea of Sun hardware. How it works, the philosophy, and so on.... P.S. I hope this message will not generate another "keep-alive packet" Sorry it's my ISP 8( Ciao Ciao Paolo Di Francesco _ ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message