From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jul 7 17: 1:29 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 40AAA15508 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:01:17 -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 QAA26985; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA05790; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:57:06 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA15936; Wed, 7 Jul 99 16:57:03 PDT Message-Id: <3783BCA5.5DAC485B@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:46:29 -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: Mark Newton Cc: Gerald Heinig , paipai@tin.it, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: <199907070447.OAA74556@atdot.dotat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Newton wrote: > > Gerald Heinig wrote: > > > So far, an intensive (and increasingly expensive) search of www.sun.com, > > docs.sun.com and access1.sun.com hasn't yielded anything that comes > > close to what I'd call a technical reference manual. There are two > > options open, as far as I can see: open up my Sun, look at all the stuff > > inside, get its part no. and get the info for it (if it's available), > > or, ask someone at NetBSD.org how they did it. > > Option 2 is somewhat unsatisfying, since they must have got their info > > from somewhere... > > I think you'll find that they got it by opening up their Suns, looking > at all the stuff in side, getting its part no., and getting the info for it. What, you guys don't consider schematics to be documentation? Sheesh, you should try working as an embedded programmer, using ASICs made by your own company where the only existing documentation on ANYTHING is the VHDL source... Wimps. ;^) -- "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