From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 31 13:15:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.noos.fr (verlaine.noos.net [212.198.2.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984E637B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 42962460 invoked by uid 0); 31 May 2001 19:58:59 -0000 Received: from d081.dhcp212-198-228.noos.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.228.81]) (envelope-sender ) by verlaine.noos.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 31 May 2001 19:58:59 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4VJww035078; Thu, 31 May 2001 21:58:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200105311958.f4VJww035078@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VAX anyone interested? In-Reply-To: To: Cyrille Lefevre Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:58:56 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Gunther Schadow , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: clefevre@redirect.to From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL92 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Gunther Schadow writes: > > > I got some VAXen 6420, big machines. Mine has 6 CPUs. I was planning > > to boot myself with Ultrix, and then go on with NetBSD. Even > > NetBSD's port-vax needs some tweaking for my hardware, XMI and > > BI bus support is blank. I am with FreeBSD forever and FreeBSD > > has SMP which NetBSD has not. I want to run all of my 6 CPUs > > not just one. So, I am thinking about taking the Alpha port and > > reverse hacking it into a VAX port with lots of cheating with > > the NetBSD code. FYI, a message titled "NetBSD/vax now runs multicpu" has just been posted today in announce@netbsd.org : http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2001/05/31/0000.html hope this help. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@redirect.to UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message