Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:15:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc Booting Process Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811171913090.2757-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199811172350.AAA02687@ocean.campus.luth.se>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > According to Paolo Di Francesco: > > How the Sparc hw boots up? Where can I find more infos, documents and so on? > > Sorry, can't help there. > > > Can someone test my code? ( I do not have a sparc box... 8( ) > > There seems to be some people on this list willing to do that... > > > I don't think sparc asm will be very far from i386 asm. I hope.... ;) > > Fortunately it's NOT close to i386. > It's a RISC, and it's non-intel. Adds up to "much nicer than i386". :-) > Personally I've become quite fond of another RISC (from some labs we did > at the university), the mips. :-) > Yup, you should take a look at the PA-RISC arch, it's simply amazing how well you could design an optimizing compiler for it. I also find the MIPS to be much cooler that SPARC. But this is something i'm interested in working on. -Alfred 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.4.05.9811171913090.2757-100000>