Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:03:31 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sparc porting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901201201520.55154-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199901201626.IAA02355@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:52:50 -0500 (EST) > Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> wrote: > > > > > netbsd has a snapshot available, however i doublt they support ultra5 > > > > (because of the PCI) > > > > > > is the problem with probing.. > > > > that and no drivers to probe with. :) > > Actually, NetBSD's PCI drivers are all machine-independent, and many of them > are already known work properly on big-endian and 64-bit systems (Atari, > Power Macintosh, Alpha). > > The main issue w/ supporting the Ultra5 in NetBSD/sparc64 is the PCI > config, i/o, and mem space mapping, and the interrupt glue. > > These amount to a SMOP, really. I apoligize for the 'FUD' I'm extremely busy and have been looking at as much as i can from the netbsd project, i didn't see PCI available in the kernels. btw, it is _awesome_ to see a SNAP of net-sparc64 up. -Alfred > > -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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