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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:08:02 -0600
From:      "Mark Tempel" <mtempel@visi.com>
To:        "Lyndon Griffin" <lgriffin@bsd4us.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Timeline for development
Message-ID:  <001f01bf6934$81f53590$49ec62d1@dirac>
References:  <Pine.BSO.4.10.10001270421160.31627-100000@ns.bsd4us.org>

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> Does this look right for a timeline for development?  Am I missing
> anything?  Am I overstating anything?  Is anything out of order?
> 
> Timeline milestones:
>   bootstrap
> boot loader
> console kernel
> single user
> "full" kernel
> userland
> multiuser
> merge into current
> release and enter release cycles
> 
I think this looks reasonable for a (very) high level milestone list.
I do think that this project will take a long time to complete, and 
I hope that we can be ready to roll our work into the FBSD 5.0
release :-).

I also wanted to add  (just for the hardware list on the web page)
that I have a SS5 and a SS10 dedicated to this effort.  When 
my 10/100 switch shows up I will put one of these on the net 
for the abuse of anyone who wants to help.

Another note:  I have been trying to build a cross-compiler
that groks the architecture sparc-unknown-freebsd.  I 
have been having quiet alot of trouble building the header files 
to config gcc.  I have been trying to understand how all the 
config (/usr/src/contrib/gcc/config) files work by comparing how
the i386 NetBSD file compares with the i386 FreeBSD file, and
how the alpha FreeBSD file compares to the i386 FreeBSD file.
I am hoping to glean enough information to be able to transform
the NetBSD sparc file (.../gcc/config/sparc/netbsd.h) into a file
that will tell gcc how to build an elf executable for a sparc 
architecture.  I haven't been able to find very much information on 
the net to aid in this process, and this is my first crack at doing
something like this with gcc.  I was wondering if anyone had any 
pointers, web sites, books...etc that would help me along.

Thanks in advance.

Mark Tempel
metmpel@visi.com



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