From owner-freebsd-sparc Fri Mar 10 23:42:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD9637B5CB for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15761; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:42:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38C9F8FB.EF9F863B@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:42:51 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Borman Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merger information References: <200003110610.AAA26472@krystal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Paul Borman wrote: > > BSD/OS 4.1 for Sparc has just entered the first limited round of betas. > UUNET has been running BSD/OS on Sparc hardware for a number of years. > 4.1 supports up through UltraSPARC V9, though PCI based machines are > not yet supported (that work is underway). I have no release schedule > information, however. > > As has been mentioned, it will be some time to sort things out. The > best and more reliable information thus far has been the Press Release. > Clearly more information will be needed :-) > > Just a note, I am not a subscriber to this list, I was just browsing > this evening. I thought the above might be useful to you. There is > probably not a whole lot else I could provide at this time. Thank you, Paul, that is useful information. My observation remains, the best course anyone interested can pursue at this moment is to begin to port the FreeBSD userland tools to NetBSD-SPARC in preparation for the kernel work. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message