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Date:      Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:08:09 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu>
To:        Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari.de>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: port progress note
Message-ID:  <20010709020809.E15863@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net>; from robert@ferrari.de on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:53:28AM %2B0200
References:  <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net>

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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:53:28AM +0200, Robert Drehmel wrote:
> I wrote the MD part for the FreeBSD/sparc64 loader;
> it has been tested on a Sun Ultra 5 (I bought one

How do we get it to review it?

> Can we *please* rename this port to FreeBSD/sparcv9?
> This is in my opinion much more appropriate, because
> there might be 64 bit SPARC processors in the future
> that are not V9 compatible and can thus not be supported
> by this port.

And why wouldn't we just add the v10 bits to the sparc64 code when a v10
comes out??

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)

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