From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Nov 26 11:15:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25676 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:15:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu (delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu [128.135.5.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25670 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecameron@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu) Received: (from ecameron@localhost) by delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id NAA05750; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:14:55 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981126131454.A5740@bsd.uchicago.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:14:54 -0600 From: Erik Cameron To: Eivind Eklund , eddy@ISI.EDU, Paolo Di Francesco Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What we need References: <19981117191810.ELJR23830.fep03-svc@winworkstation> <13905.54709.543764.312267@kit.isi.edu> <19981126190350.A5905@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981126190350.A5905@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 07:03:50PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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