Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:14:54 -0600 From: Erik Cameron <ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, eddy@ISI.EDU, Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What we need Message-ID: <19981126131454.A5740@bsd.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981126190350.A5905@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 07:03:50PM %2B0100 References: <19981117191810.ELJR23830.fep03-svc@winworkstation> <13905.54709.543764.312267@kit.isi.edu> <19981126190350.A5905@follo.net>
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The real problem I've found with this is is the (relatively) large amount of assembly code involved in building libc; libc being the first thing to work on, IMHO. -e On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 07:03:50PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 12:06:50PM -0800, eddy@isi.edu wrote: > > A previous email mentioned the avenue of getting freebsd userland > > running on a sparc/netbsd kernel. would this be a significant > > benifiet? if so, i can spend some time doing this. > > I believe it would be of significant benefit, yes. It would allow the > FreeBSD kernel porters to have a pre-made set of binaries to test > with, and would allow parts of the porting to progress in parallel. > It probably isn't as much work now as it was for the Alpha port - most > of the bogons should be out, and we have already built under NetBSD on > a 64-bit platform once. > > Eivind. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message -- erik cameron -- bsd/is support services support engineer, unix frood, sysadmin, etc. ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu | karl is silly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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