Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:04:21 +0100 (MET) From: Christopher Arnold <chris@bahnhof.se> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting point? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981119145921.20104q-100000@metro> In-Reply-To: <6481.911483044@gjp.erols.com>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > This to me says that the initial development should be done on a USPARC PCI > based box. Why? All that is needed is the host -> pci bridge support code, and > we get a whole slew of debugged and working PCI drivers. On the other hand, > going the SBUS route, we not only have to debug SBUS bridge & support code, > but also the drivers to (since I can virtually guarentee they won't work out > of the box) > To me this makes sense, not that i don't want SBUS support (or sun4m support) but it advances the project and gives it the attention it needs. So why not go the quickest/easiest path and then move on from there. I'm quite surtain that as soon as there is some PCI based systems up and running the pressure/interest for SBUS and older architectures will increase and people will start coding. /chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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