From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 6 20:15:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA05116 for alpha-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsdserve1.comsite.net (dave@bsdserve1.comsite.net [205.238.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA05108 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@comsite.net) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by bsdserve1.comsite.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02356 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:02:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:02:49 -0600 (CST) From: dave To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: alpha port Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think what needs to be done is to get netbsd running freebsd binaries ok across all platforms, then get the build tools working, then build the binaries (both of these steps will probably have to be worked on concurrently)...if we can have netbsd emulating freebsd from usermode then people can be working on making the utils 64bit clean while the kernel is being worked on... also the availability of freebsd binaries on the alpha will help encourage people to work on the kernel.