From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jan 18 19: 6:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from bsd4us.org (cn386092-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.46.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F6E14E14 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lgriffin@BSD4US.ORG) Received: from localhost (lgriffin@localhost) by bsd4us.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12523 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:01:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:01:38 -0500 (EST) From: Lyndon Griffin To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hello ello llo lo o In-Reply-To: <20000118181928.F27689@sturm.canonware.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 From the "for what it's worth" department: Good info, Jason. Thanks. I would like, if there are no strong oppositions, to take ownership of the FreeBSD/SPARC(32) porting efforts. I must stress that this is only for the 32bit SPARC architectures, as I am not yet fortunate enough to own any sun4u machines. I don't know to what extent the two can co-exist in a single port - based on the various other distributions (OpenBSD, NetBSD, Debian, and RedHat), I think this may be a smart move. Comments on that are welcome, and we can certainly open it up for discussion on a new thread. In the next few days, I will set up a dedicated area on my web site to handle port status information, FAQ, etc. I'll post the URL here. I can also set up a CVS server there and start tracking -current. Even if I'm not heading up the show, these are valuable resources for any project. I think leveraging existing code from any available (by available, I mean borrowing from Net-, Open-, and Free- existing code base) source is the quickest route to a running system. We can re-engineer anything not specifically FreeBSD-core compliant prior to designating a release. I must admit that I have almost -zero- experience as a SPARC coder. In other words, I have no clue what I'm getting myself into, here. The really twisted thing is that is my reason for doing it. Can I get a sound-off of those who are ready to start working immediately? It would probably be a good idea to post the "team" information on the status page. <:) Lyndon Griffin http://www.bsd4us.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message