From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Nov 5 10:18:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09490 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:18:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net [206.64.4.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09485 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:18:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA20874; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:21:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:21:08 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net To: Matthew Jacob cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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