From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Apr 11 16:53:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from www0f.netaddress.usa.net (www0f.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AC1215617 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lamester@netscape.net) Received: (qmail 9689 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Apr 1999 23:48:48 -0000 Message-ID: <19990411234848.9688.qmail@www0f.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.35 by www0f via web-mailer(M3.0.0.60) on Sun Apr 11 23:48:48 GMT 1999 Date: 12 Apr 99 11:48:48 NZST From: David Ferry To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Finally a kernel discussion, yay! X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.60) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > = > Oh, well... Let's discuss about kernel. 8) > = > Actually I don't know which is the best version to start experiments = > with... = > = > The 3.1 version could be a good candidate, but I have seen a 4.0 versio= n = > in the -current tree... > = I'm not fussed. In fact I don't care. By the time we have this going it w= on't matter. I haven't had any luck getting a cross compiler on x86 generate sparc-64 = code. Has anyone done this or are you all using netbsd or something. I was using gcc-2.7.2.3 and was getting definition disagrees with previou= s definition for sizet or something (64 bit int I think). Basically what the first step should be is to set up the mmu so that it u= ses the same mappings as the alpha is suspect. = When we hacked linux to the sun 3/80 we just set up the mmu for 3 level p= age tables, with 4k pages. We then made a putc function that called the proms= putchar function and you get some things happening. On ultra IIi we can only have 8k pages as the smallest. I take it that th= is is because of the 44 bit virtual address space. I still do not have an ultra but am working on it. -Dave lamester@netscape.net ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message