Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:51:15 -0700 From: Ian Logan <ian@nmsu.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port Message-ID: <349195B3.9C3EEE2D@nmsu.edu> References: <15903.881931778@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I'd also argue that the legacy stuff should just generally be left > alone until after the majority of the SPARC architecture support is > rolled into the toolchain and your UltraSPARC port is at least booting > single-user. :-) Unless someone's got a serious jones on for running > FreeBSD on their SPARCStation II right this very minute, waiting until > you've made more progress is only in their best interest if they want > maximum leverage for their own port. > > Jordan I guess I'm a little confused about what you're suggesting to leave out. A SS2 is indeed a very old box, and getting the code work right for a 4c seems to be a lot of work. However, from everything I've read upto now the newer 4m's (ie SparcStaion (4|5|10|20)) aren't that far off from the Ultra's, in other words they'll share alot of the same code. I don't see any reason why 4m & 4u support couldn't happen in parallel :-) Ian aka the guy wanting to write the 4m code. -- Ian Logan Computing & Networking New Mexico State University Email: ian@nmsu.edu Phone: 505-646-6034 Fax: 505-646-5278
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