From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Nov 19 05:44:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01645 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 05:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01640 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 05:44:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA06485 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:44:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Starting point? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:06:06 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:44:04 -0500 Message-ID: <6481.911483044@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stefan Molnar wrote in message ID : > Well, one thing is to look at the OpenBSD code for the various > devices, like the bw2, cg6, and other cards. No matter what cpu > set, except the UltraAXi and other PCI based systesms, you need > to get the SBus devices. I recomend OpenBSD over NetBSD, mainly > Theo did a large part of the sparc port of NetBSD, so the code in > OpenBSD should be more up to date. This to me says that the initial development should be done on a USPARC PCI based box. Why? All that is needed is the host -> pci bridge support code, and we get a whole slew of debugged and working PCI drivers. On the other hand, going the SBUS route, we not only have to debug SBUS bridge & support code, but also the drivers to (since I can virtually guarentee they won't work out of the box) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message