Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:21:08 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811051320050.10448-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811050917110.8020-100000@feral-gw>
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > NetBSD and linux have quite usable and complete ports. I've heard > that OpenBSD does as well. > > URL's I dunno. Try http://www.clbooks.com and search for > SPARC- that'll get you the Sparc assembly reference guide. > Try also http://www.sparc.org. > > The SBus information used to be available from Sun- you could > get an SBus developers kit which had OBP (prom) info as well > as other information. You might dig around http://www.sun.com. > > The onboard SCSI is the Emulex ESP100 (aka NCR 53C90). I don't > know whether there's an existing HBA driver in FreeBSD for this. > It isn't in the tree. > > I'd suggest that NetBSD is closer to what you want than Linux- > which box did you get though- NetBSD isn't running on Ultras > yet. Ultra 170e, 256ram, 2 4gig scsi disks, creator 2 gfx, hme network etc... thanks fot the pointers, putting it in my saved mail. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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