From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 16 14:31:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB79E37BED7; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02863; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:30:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: David DeTinne , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <75499.966459488@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Jordan- what's the status of the BSDi merge && a sparc port? I sort of though > t > > that something that works would then "just arrive"? > > You mean the BSD/OS merge? Well, people have taken on the SMPng bits > and that project appears to be progressing nicely. Nobody has taken > on the SPARC bits, however, and I can only point out that lack of > reference SPARC bits from another BSD implementation has never been > the problem here. We've had both NetBSD and OpenBSD to serve that > purpose for a long time but nobody who actually wanted to do the work > step forward and do it. You've been around this biz long enough to > know that bits never "just arrive", they have to be carried in on a > stretcher and sent straight to triage. :) Well, since the SMP stuff seemed to have been assigned/self-assigned, I assumed that somebody else, like maybe Chris, would become the stretcher bearer to come in and bless FreeBSD with. I wasn't saying "arrived" as in "out of the ether comes protons...". I was saying arrived as in the majordomo tinkling a bell and announcing, "The countess BSDi/SPARC, with retinue" -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message