From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Aug 23 8:22:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from goku.cl.msu.edu (goku.cl.msu.edu [35.8.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB2637B422; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dervish@localhost) by goku.cl.msu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA29241; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:22:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dervish) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:22:40 -0400 From: Bush Doctor To: "David O'Brien" Cc: kdulzo@gerp.org, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advancing FreeBSD/sparc Message-ID: <20000823112240.A54815@goku.cl.msu.edu> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , kdulzo@gerp.org, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000822152456.A13607@caffeine.gerp.org> <20000822135706.C86875@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000822135706.C86875@hub.freebsd.org>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:57:06PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 WWW-Home-Page: http://bantu.cl.msu.edu Organisation: Information Systems - Michigan State University Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Out of da blue David O'Brien aka (obrien@FreeBSD.ORG) said: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:24:57PM -0500, Kevin M. Dulzo wrote: > > I see no reason to exclude older machines from a port of FreeBSD as > > many of these lunch/pizza boxes can be had rather cheaply and are quite > > effective at accomplishing tasks. > > Some disagree about this. > > > I plan to work heavily on the 4c and 4m initially as a 4u machine is > > quite out of my reach. > > I have offered a few U1/170's loaners (IFF you are actually going to do > something to move the FreeBSD/sparc64 port forward). > > > Another issue had to deal with tracking changes/committing and > > which branch(es) should be used. I have no idea on this one, current > > would make the most sense, a majority of my familiarity is in the stable > > branch. > > If you want any work done to be folded back into the offical FreeBSD code > repository, the work *MUST* be done on -CURRENT. Trying to merge any > RELENG_4 kernel work back into -CURRENT would be very painful. Is http://www.freebsd.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc the official web page for the sparc port? I've also come across Lyndon Griffin freebsd-sparc page at http://bsd4us.org/fsparc/. Both pages were last modified in January 2000. Should one take that as the latest information on the status of the port? > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > #;^) -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. bush doctor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message