Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:43:42 -0700 From: "Lyndon Griffin" <lgriffin@naviant.com> To: "a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality" <cjc26@cornell.edu> Cc: "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com>, <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Wayward SPARC 5 looking for a good home. Message-ID: <000401bedd06$2ddec8f0$fd239dd1@naviant.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908011852420.1143-100000@tankgrrl>
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I'd like to say that I know how far its progressed ;) Truthfully, the 'real' work has all been done on the 64bit SPARCs - I'm part of the splinter group that wants to work on 32 bit machines. The web page is maintained by the 64 bit group. To my knowledge, there has been no real effort to merge the two. And, there has been little done (so far) on my part, save putting some src trees in place and scanning through some code. Personally, I'm working primarily on a SS2, running OpenBSD 2.5. I think everyone else involved has been working on NetBSD 1.x. I don't even know why one would be --too-- much different from the other, since both share common roots, in source and in coders. I've never had good luck with NetBSD, so OpenBSD is my OS of choice. Most of my effort, right now, has been trying to find good documentation. I'm working a contract that keeps me in Silly-cone Valley, and I find that information is much easier to come by, compared to Delaware. There are no good price breaks, however, on documentation - but I found a great store for beefing up on disk space, and have since acquired a few more SCSI drives. I also have a couple of friends that work at Sun, but none of them would risk even a rumor of them passing on documentation, let alone the real thing. I didn't press the issue, there. I think what's been said several times over the last year is absolutely true - we need a leader, someone who knows how to manage software life-cycle projects, and someone that's familiar with Sun hardware, on a very low level. That might amount to more than one person, but just one would do, for the time being. <:) Lyndon > -----Original Message----- > From: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality > [mailto:cjc26@cornell.edu] > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 3:55 PM > To: Lyndon Griffin > Cc: Wes Peters; freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Wayward SPARC 5 looking for a good home. > > > Heh, and I'm happy with only two :P > Anyway, how far has the sparc port progressed? The page at the freebsd > website doesn't seem to have been updated in the last year or so. I'd be > happy to help out myself--at the very least I could be a beta > tester/guinea > pig :) > > On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Lyndon Griffin wrote: > > | Me Me Me! > | > | I've been bulking up my sun4* stock - I have four now, and one > on the way... > | You can never have too much hardware ;) > | > | <:) Lyndon Griffin > | > | > -----Original Message----- > | > From: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG > | > [mailto:owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wes Peters > | > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 10:17 PM > | > To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org > | > Subject: Wayward SPARC 5 looking for a good home. > | > > | > > | > I've got a line on a SPARCstation 5 looking for a good home > with someone > | > interested working on the FreeBSD-SPARC port. If interested, > contact me > | > via email. > | > > | > If outside the USA, you would have to pay any duties due on > shipping. I > | > think the organization giving this away will pay shipping. I > don't know > | > any other details at this time. > | > > | > -- > | > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > | > > | > Wes Peters > | > Softweyr LLC > | > http://softweyr.com/ > | > wes@softweyr.com > | > > | > > | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > | > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > | > > | > | > | > | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > | with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > | > > -- > cliff crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ > -><- main(q){6-q&&main(q+1),putchar(67+3*(19%q-q/4));} > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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