From owner-freebsd-sparc Fri Mar 10 10:17:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E02837BA86 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id KAA29468; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:16:33 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA19059; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:16:30 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id LAA10288; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:16:03 -0700 Message-ID: <38C93BFB.8953AE71@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:16:27 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lyndon Griffin Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merger information References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lyndon Griffin wrote: > > I would like to throw together a list of questions/concerns that we have > and pose that list to Core - it will help us channel our future efforts > into making FreeBSD/SPARC really exist. My first, and probably most > important, question is this: when can we have access to the BSD/OS SPARC > code so that we can get moving? Anyone else want to chime in? Be patient. The BSD/OS SPARC support will be releasable, and support for some yummy things like SMP on the E-x50 and E-x500 chassis. A port of the FreeBSD userland to NetBSD-SPARC remains the best starting step at this time. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message