Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:34:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit Message-ID: <20001025083416.I21047@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200010251240.e9PCe3k05581@bg-tc-ppp1176.monmouth.com>; from pechter@pechter.dyndns.org on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400 References: <bulk.71894.20001025045241@hub.freebsd.org> <200010251240.e9PCe3k05581@bg-tc-ppp1176.monmouth.com>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote: > Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com) wrote: > > You're free to work on whatever you want, but the general consensus for all > > of us keepers of SPARC 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s, IPCs, and IPXs, was that it > > would be hard enough to get a port going for modern 64-bit machines, let > > alone doing it for ancient hardware, and NetBSD and OpenBSD support them > > quite adequately already. FWIW, FreeBSD isn't really interested in "hobby" > > ports anymore. > > This is why there ain't gonna be an Ultra Port for a while. > Most of the folks who will volunteer to work on the stuff don't have or > want to purchase Ultras... I've already offered twice U1's to those that will do some real work towards the FreeBSD/sparc64 effort. > FreeBSD is the best Unix for i386... but we've not shown any real moves to > the multiplatform area. Uh... the Alpha? The IA-64? The Mac-PowerPC? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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