From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Dec 16 13:29:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA00787 for sparc-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xpert.com (xpert.com [199.203.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA00773 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yuri@xpert.com) Received: from localhost (yuri@localhost) by xpert.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA25253; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 23:25:02 +0200 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 23:25:02 +0200 (IST) From: Yuri Gindin To: Dale Walker cc: "Robert S. Sciuk" , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freeloading FreeBSD for Free -- NOT! In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Dale Walker wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Robert S. Sciuk wrote: > >---snipped---- > > I, myself have an IPX box that's just screaming for an uplift from SunOS > > 4.x -- and what better than FreeBSD?? I am certainly willing to test a > > reasonably stable Beta or even Alpha release for what that's worth, or > > perhaps port some intel code to ensure byte alignment etc is ok. > > I have a couple of SS1's (sun4c) rearing to go as well ... > Mee too, I have IPX (4c) and LX(4m) and want very much to run FreeBSD on it instead of Slowaris. > > understand that OpenBSD (at least) already runs on SPARC (and others) and > > could serve as a base for simple device drivers, and boot code ... but I'm > > sure I cover known territory ... > NetBSD also, although I understand the OpenBSD is more stable.....but I > digress... I think that due to the infantsy of the project, we should > actually find out who can help , what can be provide (ie FAQ's, current > kernel srctree, etc, etc) > really, why we need to reinvent the wheel? It's possible to use the device drivers from Net/OpenBSD, taking into account that the kernel is almost the same except of the VM stuff. They also have superior emulation for StunOS/Slowaris, even NetBSD runs on the top of "NetBSD emulation". There are enough *BSDs around. But FreeBSD is the BestBSD :-) --Yuri.