From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Oct 31 23:45:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5832A37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:45:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from bender (adlax8-111.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.234.111]) by mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA24177; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:43:29 +1100 Message-ID: <002901c043d7$720abd70$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> From: "Martin Minkus" To: Cc: "Michael Schuster" References: <016a01c03d9d$eb2c6950$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <39F5BD2D.2F978990@post.rwth-aachen.de> <009801c04336$7e45ea20$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <39FEE402.A4A74950@Sun.COM> Subject: Re: Anyone out there ? Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:13:30 +1030 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Martin Minkus wrote: > > > Some of you at this point might be wondering ... WHY???? > > > > Well, simple. A sparc10 is all i have (as well as an IPX), so i have to make > > do. So i'm doing a 32bit sparc port. That, and Net and Open already have > > working Sparc32 ports i can study and learn from. > > I've been wanting to do something like this for ages, but apart from the > fact that I lead a life apart from my job as well :-) I'm not quite sure > how my employer would react to me doing this ... Ask them to give back our funding ? :-) > A note on Sparc assembler: get the Sparc V[89] Architecture Manual. It may > not be the best-told story in town, but it is a good reference! I'll see if i can get it. I'll be using V7 most probably, to stay compatible with the older sparcs. V9 is the ultra's, is it not ? > good luck, and let me know if I can help you > > Michael will do. martin. > -- > Michael Schuster michael.schuster@sun.com > temporarily at HES CTE, San Diego, Ca. > (+1) (858) 626 3294 / x(70)43294 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message