From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jul 14 16:17: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF87F14DB8 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:16:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA25436; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA15714; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:12:42 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04248; Wed, 14 Jul 99 16:12:57 PDT Message-Id: <378D1978.C839FD90@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:12:56 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: mestery@visi.com Cc: Robert Swindells , jabley@patho.gen.nz, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32-bit sparc port References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org mestery@visi.com wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Robert Swindells wrote: > > > I am more interested in getting FreeBSD running on my StrongARM system > > though since it is more like a PC. > > > > My feeling is that it makes more sense to concentrate on porting FreeBSD > > to other PCI bus systems than to add support for extra bus types. > > > I began an attempt at this (porting FreeBSD to StrongARM based systems) > last winter, but didn't make it very far. I instead took Linux and got > it running on our StrongARM hardware, with modifications. I am now > familiar enough with the StrongARM and Linux that I think I could assist > with a StrongARM FreeBSD port. I have some time to spend on this, also. > If anyone else is interested, let me know. I don't have much experience > porting from the ground up, as Linux was already running on ARM > hardware, but I'm learning as I go so far.:) The Digitial Network Appliance, the "reference design" for the StrongArm, ran a BSD variant that was reported at different times as being either NetBSD or FreeBSD. The truth seems to be a NetBSD-ARM kernel with some FreeBSD utilities. You can probably still find it floating around somewhere. I'd buy a NetWinder if I could get either NetBSD or FreeBSD on it. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message