Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:56:01 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Christoph Haas <ch@adimus.de> Cc: Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811180853290.10312-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <sa690h9ns4v.fsf@adimus.de>
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On 18 Nov 1998, Christoph Haas wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> writes: > > > This is to all those on the list, what i tried to strike up is for an > > ultra-sparc port, i won't be working on any other models. > > But what about all those users that have some sort of "old" hardware > at home (like SparcStations 10, 20, 5, 4 and so on) ? It's nice to > support only the latest hardware, but here I think this way would be > wrong. We should support both the "old" hardware baesd on sun4, sun4m, > sun4d and the Ultra-based machines. > > Christoph > No problem, as Jordan would say, "Show me the diffs." -Alfred Seriously supporting older sparcs would be novel, however i purchased an ultra specifically for trying this port, and the fact that it's 64 vs 32 bit code doesn't make this very trivial to support both. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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