From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 4 11:47:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3C837B40F for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:47:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id D50C33E8B; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:48:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C76C6BAAD; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:48:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:48:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Garrett Rooney Cc: Nora Etukudo , Subject: Re: OT: sparc? In-Reply-To: <20010904095701.B72659@electricjellyfish.net> Message-ID: <20010904144420.N67583-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Garrett Rooney wrote: >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Nora Etukudo wrote: >> This might be very offtopic. >> >> Every now and than I see commit messages from the cvs-all list, which >> belong to files with '/src/sys/sparc64/' in their path. Does this mean, >> it's possible to install FreeBSD on an 'UltraSparc 5'? >> >> (I don't have experience with systems other than Intel based ones, but I >> would like to see an unused U5 with FreeBSD here. :-)) > >For better information, you could ask on freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, >but from what I've heard, it's a work in progress at this point. It's >closing in on single user mode though, so at some point in the near >future you will be able to install FreeBSD on your UltraSparc. In the meantime you could run NetBSD/sparc64 on it, which is quite mature at this point in relation to the FreeBSD/sparc64 code. See http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/ for more information. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message