From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 06:03:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07370 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:03:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from artemis.syncom.net (artemis.syncom.net [206.64.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07364 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cyouse@icon.com) Received: from windsock.flyboy.net (pppC1.syncom.net [206.64.31.181]) by artemis.syncom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA15864 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:03:10 -0500 From: Chuck Youse To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:11:52 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 0.7.9] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <98111809130300.02392@windsock.flyboy.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 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 While support for sun4[mcd ] is a good thing, Kapil aptly pointed out that they really are a different architecture than the sun4u. To support both with one kernel is possible, but cumbersome at best. Better to separate the two. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message