From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Nov 18 10:07:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12149 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jive.nacholand.com (jive.dub.net [169.197.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12144 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:07:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unfurl@dub.net) Received: from jive.dub.net (unfurl@jive.dub.net [169.197.1.32]) by jive.nacholand.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA02124 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:08:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from unfurl@dub.net) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:08:04 -0700 (MST) From: Unfurl X-Sender: unfurl@jive.nacholand.com To: FreeBSD-SPARC List Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Chuck Youse wrote: > > > While support for sun4[mcd ] is a good thing, Kapil aptly pointed > > out that they really are a different architecture than the sun4u. > > To support both with one kernel is possible, but cumbersome at best. > > Better to separate the two. > > It's not like users of older Suns would be out in the cold -- they can > run NetBSD, and I think Linux or OpenBSD as well. > > It's also not as if coders for this project are coming out of the > woodwork. IMHO, it's better to address a smaller problem domain and > succeed than to be over-ambitious and fail. I agree now that you put it that way. It might be a good idea for us to focus on a small goal initially being that we seem to be underpowered in the coder dept. OF course I think we should also pick that small goal with the idea of expansion and transition to the other platforms in mind. The other issue that I was thinking about was that it seems like there are a lot more older sparcs out there available for development work. Just a thought. -Bill -- unfurl@dub.net - This is a munition. Fight Back! #!/bin/perl -sp0777i