Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:22:08 +0930 From: "Martin Minkus" <diskiller@diskiller.net> To: "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: <freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone out there ? Message-ID: <006d01c03e7a$068ba080$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC4@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <029901c03e0d$6bb058b0$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <39F68D1C.45F9F336@softweyr.com>
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> > The linux kernel also seems to do some funky shit like binary patch itself > > on boot ... :/ > > Shit is right. Trust me, you can "binary patch" 32-bit SPARC instructions > into 64-bit SPARC instructions. Can you ? I don't know much about the sparc architecture. yet. > You're free to work on whatever you want, but the general consensus for all > of us keepers of SPARC 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s, IPCs, and IPXs, was that it > would be hard enough to get a port going for modern 64-bit machines, let > alone doing it for ancient hardware, and NetBSD and OpenBSD support them > quite adequately already. FWIW, FreeBSD isn't really interested in "hobby" > ports anymore. Hrm. Yes, i think i see you have a pretty good point here. So i guess the FreeBSD/sparc porting effort should concentrate on the PCI based Ultra's. (And should probably be called FreeBSD/sparc64). If anybody else out there is interested in doing a port to the old Sparc's, please drop me a line though. I'm going to try and meddle with Net/Open on my Sparc10 and see how i go, and if i ever manage to get my hands on an Ultra i might be able to help in thet porting effort. martin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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