Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:47:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Progress update Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980107142356.25094C-100000@keaggy.canonware.com>
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I thought I'd give a quick status summary for you folks reading this list, since most of the work has been going on behind the scenes until now. We'll make an effort to use this mailing list whenever appropriate. Christmas break was definitely not a productive time for me. Way too many friends and relatives to visit with. However, the ball is definitely rolling now. I've solved the problems associated with tracking current in a local cvs repository. The original plan was to keep current in the trunk of the local tree and work in a branch, periodically merging the trunk into the branch. There were several problems though, such as how to handle added/removed files, and most annoyingly, the fact that cvs doesn't ignore RCS tags in source files when checking whether a file was changed. The RCS tags were causing a new revision of every file every time I ran cvsup. The solution was to cvsup into a completely separate tree, and run a perl script I wrote that strips out the RCS tags before diffing the files (and copies over the changed files). The script also handles the added/deleted files properly. So now to keep the trunk current, I periodically run: cd FreeBSD-SPARC.cvsup cvsup -g supfile cd .. cvs_update_current --cvsupdir=FreeBSD-SPARC.cvsup --cvsdir=FreeBSD-SPARC When I get a chance I'll add a cron job to do this. As for other work being done, there are three other people working (or soon to be working) on the port now. Ian Logan had the distinguished honor of writing the first line of code. We should have our code merged together within the next couple of days. Chris Toshok is making good progress on the config setup. He says he wants to get his hands really dirty, so this is just the beginning. =) Ross Combs has expressed interest in helping with the memory subsystem and/or trap handling, for beginners. I haven't spoken with him directly yet, but look forward to his contributions. I hope to start writing code today, now that the initial setup problems are out of the way, so stay tuned. Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Work phone: [(408) 774-8007] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison]
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