From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jul 9 2: 8:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE3237B403 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:08:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6998ER26616; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6998D892106; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:08:09 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Robert Drehmel Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port progress note Message-ID: <20010709020809.E15863@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net>; from robert@ferrari.de on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:53:28AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:53:28AM +0200, Robert Drehmel wrote: > I wrote the MD part for the FreeBSD/sparc64 loader; > it has been tested on a Sun Ultra 5 (I bought one How do we get it to review it? > Can we *please* rename this port to FreeBSD/sparcv9? > This is in my opinion much more appropriate, because > there might be 64 bit SPARC processors in the future > that are not V9 compatible and can thus not be supported > by this port. And why wouldn't we just add the v10 bits to the sparc64 code when a v10 comes out?? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message