From owner-cvs-usrbin Sat May 16 16:19:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25344 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 16:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-usrbin) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25171; Sat, 16 May 1998 16:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA27803; Sun, 17 May 1998 09:21:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199805162321.JAA27803@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "May 17, 98 00:08:31 am" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 09:21:56 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug Rabson wrote: > I have an alpha kernel linked (with 90% of the arch specific bits stubbed > out) and I have (only just) managed to get the SimOS CPU simulator to > execute the first few instructions :-). > > Next job is pmap :-(. I am _soooo_ glad to hear you say that. Still using a NetBSD kernel with the version "modified" to report as FreeBSD and the same for the boot blocks, I have FreeBSD/Alpha running and able to build (most) of itself. It can build ports like ssh and correctly run the GNU configure and know that it is alpha-unknown-freebsd3.0. I'm going to work on a setup that can netboot from an i386 using bootp. That's probably the easiest way to run newborn kernels. It is also the way people will need to install for the time being. Installing NetBSD and munging it into FreeBSD is a pain because of all the crap that NetBSD has in different places. Like the tools in /usr/local. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137