From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jul 9 4:16:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from patan.sun.com (patan.Sun.COM [192.18.98.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A819737B403; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 04:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael.schuster@sun.com) Received: from sun-gy.Germany.Sun.COM ([129.157.128.5]) by patan.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA04838; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 05:16:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hacker.Germany.Sun.COM (hacker [129.157.133.195]) by sun-gy.Germany.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v2.1p1) with ESMTP id NAA28709; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:16:26 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacker.Germany.Sun.COM (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f69BGP100345; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:16:25 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3B499289.FB775B7@sun.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:16:25 +0200 From: Michael Schuster X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Robert Drehmel , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port progress note References: <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net> <20010709020809.E15863@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010709112918.A1309@obelix.develop.ferrari.net> <20010709040921.A94419@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien wrote: > > In which ways will V9 and V10 differ? I just think that > > we cannot support every future 64 bit SPARC architecture > > with one port. > > I disagree. hmm ... I'd say this should be handled "on demand", ie. when a new Sparc Architecture comes out and people realise a seperate port is needed, that _then_ a new port is done, but not before. FWIW, I tend to agree with David. Michael -- Michael Schuster / Michael.Schuster@sun.com Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message