From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Apr 16 08:18:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22899 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22894 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA16195; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:18:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Jason Evans , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disinvolvement with FreeBSD/SPARC In-Reply-To: <1836.892709296@time.cdrom.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 On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I guess that sort of prompts the next question. Is there anyone > wanting to take on the task of doing a Sparc port in Jason's place or > can we simply retire this project from the rolls and quietly fold up > the various references to it in the documentation? Better to simply > bury it (even if temporarily) than raise false hopes if the project is > well and truly without a motive force behind it. That much we've > at least learned from (similar) experience. :) I was kind of hoping that once ELF went in and the toolchain was updated it would be fairly easy to dive in and start compiling the userland on the Sparc in much the same manner that the Alpha port is doing. I've not seen any code for ths sparc so far so other than this one email, nothing appears to have changed. :) /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message