Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:20:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251016180.6733-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20001025083416.I21047@dragon.nuxi.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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... > Not sure I agree with this. Let NetBSD keep doing the excellent job it does do on all the different platforms it supports- including 32 bit sparc. It's also doing a good, but slow, job of getting to sparc64 (and doing it right). FreeBSD has different markets/customers, though, and the ones for Sparc don't give a hoot about 32 bit sparc. David has offered a U1 for folks wanting to work on this. Frankly, this is helpful, but a tougher call- we'd have to support SBus right away, and, frankly, I'd also like to avoid that as well- so the first model supported is likely to be U10/PCI (Simba chipset) with U30/60 being a close followon (Psycho). All of this will have to be (officially) reverse engineered from Linux && NetBSD-sparc64 implementations as the doc sets are a bit hard to find and/or sparse (especially wrt chip *and* OBP errata). -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251016180.6733-100000>