Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:03:59 -0600 From: "Mark Tempel" <mtempel@visi.com> To: "Lyndon Griffin" <lgriffin@bsd4us.org> Cc: <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hello ello llo lo o Message-ID: <003501bf624b$5c2c0040$49ec62d1@dirac> References: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10001182134040.20767-100000@ns.bsd4us.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyndon Griffin" <lgriffin@bsd4us.org> To: <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 9:01 PM Subject: Re: hello ello llo lo o > >From the "for what it's worth" department: > > Good info, Jason. Thanks. > > I would like, if there are no strong oppositions, to take ownership of the > FreeBSD/SPARC(32) porting efforts. I must stress that this is only for > the 32bit SPARC architectures, as I am not yet fortunate enough to own any > sun4u machines. I don't know to what extent the two can co-exist in a > single port - based on the various other distributions (OpenBSD, NetBSD, > Debian, and RedHat), I think this may be a smart move. Comments on that > are welcome, and we can certainly open it up for discussion on a new > thread. If you are willing to take ownership of this port, I have no objections. > In the next few days, I will set up a dedicated area on my web site to > handle port status information, FAQ, etc. I'll post the URL here. I can > also set up a CVS server there and start tracking -current. Even if I'm > not heading up the show, these are valuable resources for any project. > > I think leveraging existing code from any available (by available, I mean > borrowing from Net-, Open-, and Free- existing code base) source is the > quickest route to a running system. We can re-engineer anything not > specifically FreeBSD-core compliant prior to designating a release. I have been reading the alpha port mailing list archieves for the past couple of days. It appears that they started by having a few (maybe one) people start looking into porting the kernel while alot of other people were busy building the userland on a system bootstrapped off of a NetBSD install. Look for the post in the Jan 11 1998 archieves. The message is from John Birrell with the subject: Bootstrapping FreeBSD/Alpha. He basically gives a roadmap on how to do this (the userland) work. I noticed that work using a cross compiler was abandoned ( I think).... Any Comments? Am I wrong about this? > I must admit that I have almost -zero- experience as a SPARC coder. In > other words, I have no clue what I'm getting myself into, here. The > really twisted thing is that is my reason for doing it. I have worked on several software systems both in my life as a student and in my professional life, but I too am new to something of this magnitude. > Can I get a sound-off of those who are ready to start working immediately? > It would probably be a good idea to post the "team" information on the > status page. I have a SS5 and was planning to try to bootstrap a userland development environment off of NetBSD (following the steps John Birrell used on the post I mentioned above) over the next few weeks. I have never done this before so I am not sure about a timeline for completion of the initial tasks involved in this. I believe that there have been several starts on this project in the past. If I am duplicating work foolishly please let me know. I am open to (and am hoping to hear) any comments. Thanks, Mark Tempel mtempel@visi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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