From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jan 23 12: 8:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E0137B402 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:07:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from bender (adlax8-234.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.234.234]) by mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0NK7gY14437; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:07:44 +1100 Message-ID: <002c01c08578$1b6334b0$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> From: "disk" To: Cc: References: <000a01c08321$257bbe80$04c80d40@internetconnect.net> <3A6A5C96.1C48F373@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: where can i get updated information on this ? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:37:22 +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 > > tafari@spoof.org wrote: > > > > Is there a mailing list somewhere ? > > > > Who has most up to date information regarding the port ? > > There isn't any up to date information on the port, there really isn't a > port. Somebody had a cross-compiler running on NetBSD once, and that's > about as far as it got. The last "progress" was an unresolved argument > over whether we should support only the newer, PCI-based UltraSPARC > machines, or include the older SBus UltraSPARC, or include support for > all SPARC architectures. Atm, as i posted (almost 2 months back), i am doing the sparc port, but on a sun4m. (SPARCserver10 to be exact). Why? Because as i stated before, its all i have. Work is progressing very slowly, as i have alot to learn (studying the 2 stage bootloader in openbsd/netbsd, the prom), and i have the v8 sparc architecture manual handy. I'm currently running OpenBSD 2.8 has the base system, with the full OpenBSD 2.8 and NetBSD 1.5 source trees, along with FreeBSD 4-Stable and 5-Current source trees. The feeling however, seems to be that this is more of a 'hobby' port, and won't make it into the FreeBSD source tree. Thats fine by me, as i'm doing this more as a learning exercise. For the FreeBSD/Sparc64 port, i'm going to need an Ultra, which i believe O'brien has offered. martin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message