From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jan 27 18:15:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.visi.com (baal.visi.com [209.98.98.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D7915BF2 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtempel@mail.visi.com) Received: from dirac (dirac.fofx.org [209.98.236.73]) by mail.visi.com (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id UAA26397; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:15:18 -0600 (CST) Posted-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:15:18 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <001f01bf6934$81f53590$49ec62d1@dirac> From: "Mark Tempel" To: "Lyndon Griffin" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Timeline for development Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:08:02 -0600 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 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message