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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
To:        Mike <mike@seidata.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980728095800.2440A-100000@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9807280955300.5819-100000@ns1.seidata.com>

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Mike,

	I found what little there was in the *BSD FAQ by searching
through the freebsd-sparc mail archives.  Essentially, the original 
plan was to port to the UltraSparc Only and not to use the NetBSD/OpenBSD 
code as a base.  There was even a lose plan of action contained
in the FAQ.  

	Given the project is dead and I don't want to make any
claims as to bringing it alive either, all I can say is I am looking
into it from the point of view of merging the NetBSD/OpenBSD
sparc support into the FreeBSD kernel.  A number of issues, 
including my own abilities and time will play a large factor.

-henry

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Henry M. Pierce
Research Programmer
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

email: hmpierce@cs.cmu.edu, hmp@infomagic.com

---
Quote for the Millennium:

"It seems the most important metric of
 useful software is not its feature set,
 but its bug set."

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mike wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:57:02 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mike <mike@seidata.com>
> To: "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Henry M. Pierce wrote:
> 
> > Hello.  I am interested in helping with the development effort
> > with the sparc port of FreeBSD with an SS1+ that was recently 
> 
> I'd also be interested in helping out in some way...  I am not sure of the
> status of this port or where to find out more information about it, but
> I'd like to put this Sparc2 to use somehow.  :)
> 
> 	-mike
> 


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