From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 05:57:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06682 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 05:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA06674 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 05:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA10820; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:56:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:56:01 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Christoph Haas cc: Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones 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 18 Nov 1998, Christoph Haas wrote: > Alfred Perlstein 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