Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:56:45 -0700 From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net> To: davidg@root.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, port-sparc@netbsd.org, tech-ports@netbsd.org, netbsd-ports@netbsd.org, davem@caip.rutgers.edu, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD-ROM 2.0.5 - Any SPARC Porting Underway? Message-ID: <199508290856.AA11308@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
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Hi Dave: > > >Anyone know if 'anyone' has raised any Legal issues with BSDI or Chris Torek > >on his SPARC Stuff in the BSD release. I was currious why it wasn't on > >the CD. With Dave Miller making big time progress on SPARC on Linux and > >Chris Torek's stuff I would think about three man months from now we could > >have FreeBSD running on the sun4c. > > That's correct. In fact, someone has already done a port of the Sparc code > to an earlier version of FreeBSD...but it would need a LOT of work to port the > port to -current. I don't suppose you know: 1. Who did it? 2. Where a copy of it is? 3. Why it wasn't integrated into the release? 4. What the problems are? 5. If some of the NetBSD guys would like to help. > I will get to it eventually (I have a Sparc sitting next to > me), but at the moment I'm too busy with other things in FreeBSD (namely, the > 2.1 release). Since the previous version didn't make it into the release, I wonder if have this be more than a one man show might help increase the odds. If we could get a few guys working on this I would think the odds greatly improved. I've got plenty of sparkstations that I can use here at RockyMountain. What have you been plaining to do? > > -DG -pete
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