From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 09:32:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04754 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:32:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04749 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mestery@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09576; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:31:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma009554; Wed, 18 Nov 98 11:30:43 -0600 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA01583; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:30:42 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:30:42 -0600 (CST) From: Kyle Mestery To: Lyndon Griffin cc: Christoph Haas , Alfred Perlstein , Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Sparc board, and clones In-Reply-To: <001101be1305$9b416130$71e2f4cd@tchaikovsky.naviant.com> 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 > My input on developing only an UltraSPARC port is this: first off, the > knowledge floating around about the Ultras is, in my experience, a lot less > quantitative than information you can find about most "plain-old-SPARC" > chips. Take into account that there is a lot of work that has already been > done on sun4* architecture, in terms of other OS's, that is either GPL or > open source - providing this project with a broad base of knowledge to > borrow and build on. Finish off with I don't have an Ultra that I can use > for development yet, so my contribution to a project that is only UltraSPARC > is going to be nil. > > I don't think it is wrong to include Ultras in the port, but I believe it is > stupidity to disclude earlier SPARCs. > You are missing the entire point, which is not to disclude older Sparcs. The point is they are essentially an entirally different port altogether than an Ultrasparc port. Look at NetBSD's recent Ultra port, it's got it's own source directory and everything. They two, while the may share some similaritires, are vastly different, and would be separate ports. So please everyone, stop complaining about supporting the older Sparcs with this port. What we have is basically two separate ports that would happen. -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Storage Networking Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message