From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 06:31:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12208 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:31:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12203 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:31:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost by echonyc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA29630; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:30:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:30:50 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Chuck Youse cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones In-Reply-To: <98111809130300.02392@windsock.flyboy.net> 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, 18 Nov 1998, Chuck Youse wrote: > 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. It's not like users of older Suns would be out in the cold -- they can run NetBSD, and I think Linux or OpenBSD as well. It's also not as if coders for this project are coming out of the woodwork. IMHO, it's better to address a smaller problem domain and succeed than to be over-ambitious and fail. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message