From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 10:01:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10856 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:01:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep02-svc.tin.it (mta02-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10850 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paipai@box4.tin.it) Received: from winworkstation ([212.216.237.18]) by fep02-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19981118180019.THGP16980.fep02-svc@winworkstation> for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:00:19 +0100 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Paolo Di Francesco" To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:01:53 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Message-Id: <19981118180019.THGP16980.fep02-svc@winworkstation> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I for one would have to agree with alfred on this one. There are a lot > of old sun's sitting out there that ppl could be using. Ov course our > decision should be within reason. I think it was a good choice to not > support anything below a 386 on the intel side. We need to draw > the line *somewhere* but IMHO just working on Ultras will kill this > project. (Especially with the price of S5's lately) I think we have to discuss this topic... Statement #1 : If we have no UltraSparc box we cannot do the port! So, I have no sparc hardware and I can try to buy an UltraSparc (if it does not cost too much), but I think we can try to do ports on Ultra, and old Sparc. For now, we can wait until we know how many Sparc and Ultra we have avaible. In the meantime we can do experiments (on old Sparc too) on booting, and we can try to separate the machine-indipendent-code from the machine-dipendent-code. When we'll have these things done we can decide if we can port on Ultra, on oldSparc, and so on... P.S. We can ask Sun Microsystem if they can sell us MotherBoards at 50% of the price... Ciao Ciao Paolo Di Francesco _ ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message