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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:56:45 -0700
From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
Message-Id: <199508290856.AA11308@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
To: davidg@root.com
Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD-ROM 2.0.5 - Any SPARC Porting Underway?
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, port-sparc@netbsd.org, tech-ports@netbsd.org,
        netbsd-ports@netbsd.org, davem@caip.rutgers.edu,
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Hi Dave:

   > 
   > >Anyone know if 'anyone' has raised any Legal issues with BSDI or Chris Torek
   > >on his SPARC Stuff in the BSD release. I was currious why it wasn't on
   > >the CD.  With Dave Miller making big time progress on SPARC on Linux and
   > >Chris Torek's stuff I would think about three man months from now we could
   > >have FreeBSD running on the sun4c.
   > 
   >    That's correct. In fact, someone has already done a port of the Sparc code
   > to an earlier version of FreeBSD...but it would need a LOT of work to port the
   > port to -current.

I don't suppose you know:

	1. Who did it?

	2. Where a copy of it is?

	3. Why it wasn't integrated into the release?

	4. What the problems are?

	5. If some of the NetBSD guys would like to help.


   > I will get to it eventually (I have a Sparc sitting next to
   > me), but at the moment I'm too busy with other things in FreeBSD (namely, the
   > 2.1 release).

Since the previous version didn't make it into the release, I wonder if have 
this be more than a one man show might help increase the odds. If we could get
a few guys working on this I would think the odds greatly improved. I've got
plenty of sparkstations that I can use here at RockyMountain. What have you
been plaining to do? 


   > 
   > -DG

-pete