From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 09:34:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05242 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (in-ruhr.ruhr.de [141.39.224.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05215 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ch@adimus.de) Received: (from admin@localhost) by mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5) with UUCP id SAA08146; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:02:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail by mx.adimus.de with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zgAIH-00002C-00; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:17:25 +0100 Received: from det.adimus.de(192.168.0.1) via SMTP by adimus.de, id smtpdgLSH96; Wed Nov 18 17:17:17 1998 Received: from ch by det.adimus.de with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zgAI8-0001tj-00; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:17:16 +0100 To: "Lyndon Griffin" Cc: "Alfred Perlstein" , "Paolo Di Francesco" , Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones References: <001101be1305$9b416130$71e2f4cd@tchaikovsky.naviant.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Christoph Haas Date: 18 Nov 1998 17:17:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Lyndon Griffin"'s message of "Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:10:41 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Lyndon Griffin" writes: > so my contribution to a project that is only UltraSPARC > is going to be nil. Same for me. > I don't think it is wrong to include Ultras in the port, but I believe it is > stupidity to disclude earlier SPARCs. Yes, I second that. And I think we'll shoot ourselves in the foot if we go on thinking that money for Ultras to develop on grows on trees. Show me those freaks and developers that have enough money to buy a box just to hack code on it, whereas SS4 or SS5 get cheaper every day. I mean it is nice if you have a box to work on at home or at work, but it will take longer for the port to become reality if only those few people will work on it. I can't afford to buy a new board just to play with some code. I have my old SS4, it works for me and if you don't want to port to "plain-old-Sparc" - leave it. As someone said, there are alternatives. Christoph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message