From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jul 8 20:49:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18213 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (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 UAA18193 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@artemis.syncom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by artemis.syncom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA00406 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:57:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:57:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Youse To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Second-stage boot program 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 As stated in the FAQ, ("What's the general plan of attack?") a secondary boot program is at the top of the code-to-be-written list, so unless someone else has already written one, I'm going to utilize the Net/Open BSD sources to write one for FreeBSD/SPARC. Unfortunately, the initial version will only support sun4c/m, because those are the only machines I have access to. This leads me to a few questions. 1) Where is the toolchain that is alluded to in the FAQ? Has this actually been posted somewhere? I'm going to use stock gcc + binutils on NetBSD if not. 2) What's the approximate price for a SPARCengine AXi with processor? I'd like to contibute to the ultra port as well. (I suppose I could just pick up the phone and call my local Sun distributor, but ... ) 3) Do we have an official CVS server in operation? Chuck Youse To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message