From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 19 4:34:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from bsd4us.org (cn386092-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.46.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBA4151F2 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 04:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lgriffin@BSD4US.ORG) Received: from localhost (lgriffin@localhost) by bsd4us.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA05909 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:29:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:29:35 -0500 (EST) From: Lyndon Griffin To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc Port -- sounds good to me In-Reply-To: <200001191159.GAA03673@bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Should we start with OpenBSD and begin with the userland stuff first > to see how much ports over easily? Even a better idea, I think someone here already suggested it... It would be nice if it works. Porting over userland may be able to be accomplished independently of the actual kernel and hardware coding, by using a NetBSD or OpenBSD base system. While porting the kernel may be the most difficult, porting the userland will certainly be tedious - once something is ported, it will need to track current with the rest of the "real" distribution, otherwise we'll end up duplicating our efforts when the kernel work is ready for merging into current. Me - I *love* FreeBSD. There's not a lot of chance that I'll cease work when we merge into -current... Maybe Jordan will step in and correct me here, but just getting to the goal is only half the trip - once we merge, we'll have to keep on going. There's no magical code fairy that takes over maintenance of the port once we become part of the distribution. Somebody (hopefully more than one person) has to keep the port up to date with new features, kernel changes, new drivers, etc. etc. What I'm trying to get at, without being too heavy, is that I sincerely hope that people that will commit to do the work now are also committing to do the work in the future. <:) Lyndon Griffin http://www.bsd4us.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message