From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Aug 16 18: 6:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.visi.com (baal.visi.com [209.98.98.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F74637B846 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mtempel@mail.visi.com) Received: from dirac (dirac.fofx.org [209.98.236.73]) by mail.visi.com (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id UAA23282 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:06:24 -0500 (CDT) Posted-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:06:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <005c01c007e7$38cc3240$49ec62d1@dirac> From: "Mark Tempel" To: References: <200008161257240540.004B7EAE@web4.allunix.com> <20000816220840.H1056@freebie.demon.nl> Subject: Re: your mail Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:05:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4131.1600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4131.1600 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:57:24PM -0700, David DeTinne wrote: > > Is the sparc port really dead? > > > > I have tried the other BSD's and from an average users standpoint FreeBSD is the best > > (my opinion) > > > > If a developer needs a machine I will donate my IPX to get it going. > > AFAIK the project SPARC port of FreeBSD was destined for UltraSPARCs only. > But that is about all I have ever heard/seen about it. I have never heard a definitive answer regarding which architecture FreeBSD Sparc will support. I would guess that it will run on Sparc 4 machines if the developers who port it have sparc 4 machines. If the developers get access to UltraSPARC machines, then it will run there... I can say that I only have a SS20 to try to port this OS with so what ever I can accomplish will run on Sparc 4m architecture machines... A few months ago I decided to try to port over the loader from FreeBSD 4.x to Sparc. However I also decided to get married... Both the loader and the wedding are alot harder and more time consuming than I had expected... As soon as I get done with my thank you notes *sigh* I will be working on porting the loader again... Mark Tempel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message