From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jul 8 12:55:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A1A14F3D for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:55:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from postfix.hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.1-12 #D3869) with ESMTP id <01JDC59ZRTJK0007UG@mail.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:56:22 +0200 Received: from aphrodite.hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.126.8] by postfix.hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 112KGk-0007sH-00; Thu, 08 Jul 1999 21:55:42 +0200 Received: from hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de (s4m012.dialup.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.8.12]) by aphrodite.hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA19034; Thu, 08 Jul 1999 21:55:41 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 21:55:32 +0200 From: Gerald Heinig Subject: Re: Read this... To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <37850234.AEEF1B11@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Institute of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <199907070447.OAA74556@atdot.dotat.org> <3783BCA5.5DAC485B@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters wrote: > 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. ;^) Hey, I'm a lazy bum and I'm *proud* of it!! :-) :-) Gerald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message