From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 4 6:57: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0144A37B407 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 06:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 83008 invoked by uid 3130); 4 Sep 2001 13:57:01 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:57:01 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney To: Nora Etukudo Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: sparc? Message-ID: <20010904095701.B72659@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20010904154910.A87239@new.nxe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010904154910.A87239@new.nxe.de>; from nora@sappho-net.de on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:49:10PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Nora Etukudo wrote: > This might be very offtopic. > > Every now and than I see commit messages from the cvs-all list, which > belong to files with '/src/sys/sparc64/' in their path. Does this mean, > it's possible to install FreeBSD on an 'UltraSparc 5'? > > (I don't have experience with systems other than Intel based ones, but I > would like to see an unused U5 with FreeBSD here. :-)) For better information, you could ask on freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, but from what I've heard, it's a work in progress at this point. It's closing in on single user mode though, so at some point in the near future you will be able to install FreeBSD on your UltraSparc. -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message