From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jun 24 0:59:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270BC14DD5 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA29764; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 04:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:01:11 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Wes Peters Cc: bush doctor , Aaron Smith , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status? In-Reply-To: <37719478.C299CA42@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > bush doctor wrote: > > > > Check the mailing list archives. I believe Wes Peters and or Alfred Perlstein(sp?) > > had actually gotten some of the FBSD toolchain to build under NetBSD-sparc. > > Alfred built it, and I confirmed that it would run on my IPX. I assume > it's still loaded on the disk somewhere, since I haven't removed it. ;^) wait a sec, I got no such email from you :P this motivates me a lot, as soon as i'm done with restructuring the wintel's systems and the 3 coding projects they have me on I'll get back to it. I thought I was just stumbling along blindly, making a cross platform gcc compile on freebsd isn't very easy. > > I have NetBSD-SPARC running on my SPARCstation 5 at work now, too. > It's a nice system, much faster than Slowlaris. yeah, but if you put 64 processors in it Slowlaris will blow netbsd away! Cool to know I was at least on the right track, mainly the problems I'm having is that I have a 170e instead of a 170 (the scsi and ethernet aren't supported) plus the configuration files netbsd uses are a bit difficult to figure out for someone who hsan't done this sort of stuff before. "dammit Jim, i'm a TASM weenie, not John Birrel!" :) -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Win Telecom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message