From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Nov 10 6:33:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7AD37B404 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 06:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2910243EB3 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 06:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmoestl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 25292 invoked by uid 0); 10 Nov 2002 14:33:04 -0000 Received: from pd9e16004.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO forge.local) (217.225.96.4) by mail.gmx.net (mp018-rz3) with SMTP; 10 Nov 2002 14:33:04 -0000 Received: from tmm by forge.local with local (Exim 4.10 #1) id 18At9A-0000hv-00; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 15:33:09 +0100 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 15:33:08 +0100 From: Thomas Moestl To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64 release documentation Message-ID: <20021110143308.GB333@crow.dom2ip.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Bruce A. Mah" , freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <200211082100.gA8L0OMc019228@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211082100.gA8L0OMc019228@intruder.bmah.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 2002/11/08 at 13:00:24 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Hi sparc-ers, > > I've been perusing the sparc64 release documentation, and it looks like > there's a few things that can be updated. To wit: > > 1. The install documentation is kind of obsolete, now that there's a > real, running sysinstall. I think the sequence of instructions is now > much closer to what i386, alpha, and pc98 use, which means we can > probably use the unified installation document for them now (with > suitable customization). Agreed. I'd like to keep the the instructions to setup network booting somewhere (not necessarily in the install documentation). > 2. The hardware list probably could use some updating too, I'm working on this, but am not done yet (need to collect some more models that have been reported as working). > but this might be a little more useful if we could also cut over to > the unified hardware list. I think it would be better to have a separated list that only mentions drivers that have been confirmed to work on sparc64 for now, since there are a lot of drivers which do not yet use busdma or cannot handle big-endian architectures yet. > Is there any interest in helping me update these things? (I'm not a > sparc64 person, BTW.) If so, I'll change the documentation files to use > the regular hardware and installation documents and let people go at it. > I can help with markup issues, if necessary, but I don't know much > about this platform. I will try to help as time permits. I'm not sure I will be done in time for DP2 though (if the anticipated release date is still November 20). - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ PGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message