Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:26:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Cc: "Reginald J. Reed" <rjr@the-reeds.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another arch question... Message-ID: <34972A53.FAB04B79@xmission.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215131918.7374A-100000@paladio>
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Jason Evans wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Reginald J. Reed wrote:
> > I see the UltraAX board mentioned, but what about the Ultra's with the
> > Sbus? I've got an Ultra I Creator at work that I'd love to eventually run
> > FreeBSD on. Any chance of this?
>
> The only major thing preventing this will be the lack of sbus suppport.
> Chances are that we'll have that at some point, especially since the
> SPARCstation 5/10/20 machines all use sbus, so someday you will hopefully
> be able to run FreeBSD on it. I don't know how hard it will be to write
> the sbus code. About as hard as PCI?
Close. They're fairly similar in capabilities. The OpenBSD code should be
revealing of any major difficulties. Not that I'm suggesting we just
incorporate OpenBSD. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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