From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 07:18:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17905 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:18:15 -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 HAA17899 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:18:10 -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 KAA18359; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:17:41 -0500 From: Chuck Youse To: Erik Cameron Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:26:38 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 0.7.9] Content-Type: text/plain References: <19981118090757.C6935@bsd.uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <98111810273402.02475@windsock.flyboy.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, you wrote: >On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:11:52AM -0500, 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. > >One kernel is insufficient if you're not releasing source code. I mean, if >we're talking about going through and isolating all of the (i386|alpha) code >out of the kernel and concentrating our rewrites on that, I don't see as how >(other than more coding) having separate sun4x and sun4u directories in the >dist would be *that* much trouble. >erik cameron -- bsd/is support services >support engineer, unix frood, sysadmin, etc. >ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu -- pager #4167 Isn't that what I said? Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message