From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jan 27 19:27:11 2000 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 F2B1E158D9 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA41956 for freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:27:08 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timeline for development Message-ID: <20000127192708.N29338@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001f01bf6934$81f53590$49ec62d1@dirac> <38910B7D.8D9A5929@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <38910B7D.8D9A5929@softweyr.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:22:37PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Keep in mind that building the FreeBSD userland can happen using NetBSD > as a base in parallel with much of the kernel development. Though the > kernel is the "hard" part, there is a LOT of userland, and I heartily > recommend turning loose those who are interested in that part of the > port ASAP. Agreed. I managed to build about 1/4 of the FreeBSD userland under NetBSD/arm32. I have the directions & src patches to follow I could clean up and post. The libc is the major stumbling block to gettting more of userland to compile. [ie, I was using NetBSD's libc, rather than getting our libc to build] > No, but I can tell you your best bet is to pick a home for the cross tools > and dump the entire set of FreeBSD include files in that home somewhere. Note that I am working on a platform neutral src/contrib/gcc/config/freebsd.h that is usable by i386, Alpha, arm32, PPC, sparc, etc... BUT all the buildworld/release breakage have had me spending man days chashing that rather than finishing this work. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message