From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Nov 19 13:35:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21147 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:35:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from plaidsocks.com (c35486-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.1.70.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21133 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Received: from localhost (stefan@localhost) by plaidsocks.com (8.8.8/1.3.2) with SMTP id NAA03595; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:33:46 -0800 (PST) From: Stefan Molnar X-Sender: stefan@c35486-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com To: Lyndon Griffin cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Starting point? In-Reply-To: <001701be13e9$60562a80$71e2f4cd@tchaikovsky.naviant.com> 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 Just a note. Hopefully no one will even try a sun4us port. The Fujitsu sun4us machines are very very hard to port to. Mainly adviablity, and other intresting things. Stefan On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Lyndon Griffin wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > > I'm quite surtain that as soon as there is some PCI based systems up and > running the pressure/interest for SBUS and older architectures will > increase and people will start coding. > > > I'm not exactly a coder by definition, but I have a little experience. I > would like to work on the VME bus code, to suit my own needs, and since > nobody else seems to be stepping up to anything besides USparc-specific > stuff. Hopefully, I can glean some knowledge from this list. Hopefully we > can all work together on a single port that will support all SPARC > platforms, since there is bound to be code that is the same/similar between > all SPARC architectures. Just my 2 cents... > > <:) L > > > 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