From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Oct 25 8:34:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B836137B4CF for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA61317; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:34:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit Message-ID: <20001025083416.I21047@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200010251240.e9PCe3k05581@bg-tc-ppp1176.monmouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010251240.e9PCe3k05581@bg-tc-ppp1176.monmouth.com>; from pechter@pechter.dyndns.org on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote: > Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com) wrote: > > 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. > > This is why there ain't gonna be an Ultra Port for a while. > Most of the folks who will volunteer to work on the stuff don't have or > want to purchase Ultras... I've already offered twice U1's to those that will do some real work towards the FreeBSD/sparc64 effort. > FreeBSD is the best Unix for i386... but we've not shown any real moves to > the multiplatform area. Uh... the Alpha? The IA-64? The Mac-PowerPC? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message