From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Mar 7 9:46:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1054114CD5 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 09:46:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@cygnus.rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA09982; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 12:47:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 12:47:51 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release date? In-Reply-To: <7btvis$476$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> 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 7 Mar 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Only very few volunteers work on the Sparc64 port at the moment in > > their spare time. > > Not to step on anybody's toes, but is there anybody at all working on > the sparc64 port? I mean, this list seems to be made up mainly of people > who are waiting for the port to just appear. I'm _sort of_ working on it. I've never done work this involved with freebsd and low level systems before, I'm not heading _anything_ i just noticed it was dead here and asked for some pointers. My current job requires very long hours, weekends as well, many deadlines, etc... (*) It seems to do this work you need to be not only an expert at assembler, but also an expert with gcc/egcs. I can claim some level of clue with machine lang, but hacking gcc, rebuiling it, hacking, rebuilding quite easily exahuasts the time i have. My advice to those waiting? wait harder, we need more waiters. -Alfred (*) it helps if you play a small violin at this point. > > I've noticed that this week support for mips has popped up in various > places throughout the CURRENT source tree, probably related to the mips > port that appears to be progressing in near secrecy. No signs of sparc > as yet. You know what you can do with that snideness don't you? :) > > (Back to lurking.) > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > 100+ SF Book Reviews: > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message