Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:34:23 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: For who is interested Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901221226580.55154-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <36A89D3B.97A1EE00@softweyr.com>
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > I don't know if y'all caught the notice, but Sun just dropped the > > > > price of the entry-level Ultra 5 to $2,495 and added 24-bit graphics > > > > to sweeten the deal. > > > > > > Its more than that that has changed. I believe that there are also options to > > > have CPUs with larger L2 caches, and the hard drive has been upgraded from the > > > crappy slow one in the older U5's to at least a 5400 RPM drive, if not a > > > 7200RPM drive. I forget all the details, I'm not really in the market much for > > > U5's at work :) > > > > I'm supposed to get the next one that comes out of company HQ! Yay! > > In the meantime, I have a shiny new (well, not so shiny and new to me) > SPARCstation IPX at home, running NetBSD 1.3.3 on a 1.2 GB drive. I > bought this specifically to play with the FreeBSD SPARC port as it > progresses, and to help out where I can. Here's what it cost me: > > From GSTek, www.gstek.com: > Barebones SPARCstation IPX: $35 > Sun/Conner 200MB SCSI drive: 5 > > From a friend at work: > 1.2G SCSI drive: $50 > > From Computer Renassiance: > 72 pin 16MB FPM parity SIMM: $57 > > From DataComm Warehouse, www.warehouse.com: > Transition AUI->10baseT xcvr: $20 > --- > $167 i'm drooling at the 3000$ ultra10!!! i payed $100 less for a ultra1 grrrrr... :) > > Anyone who wants to jump into the SPARC port but thought they couldn't > afford a Sun machine, your number is up. You might want to talk to > GSTek about RAM, those FPM parity SIMMs are getting hard to find. You'll > also need a serial cable, see if your local cable supplier has a Mac to > IBM "laplink" or "file transfer" cable; the serial ports on the IPX are > 8-pin mini-DIN connectors wired just like the early Macintosh. The stuff i'm working on is for sparc64. :/ > Now, where do I get the compiler suite from? Has anybody made a binary > package yet? ;^) i have a netbsd i386-> sparc64 compiler available in source and binary form on: ftp://janus.syracuse.net/pub/FreeBSD/sparc64/ look in egcs directory for all kinds of goodies. if anything, though the biggest advancment for future porting would be moving to egcs. 2.7.2.2 is _terrible_ right now, egcs-current is also in a bad state, perhaps when the next egcs release happens i'll take a serious effort on seeing if i can get it compile freebsd. even the egcs that netbsd uses is quite broken and they recommend building with a later snap (which the compilers i have on Janus are NOT) i'm going to work on getting a newer snap of egcs to work. question... what platform makes the most sense to build the cross compiler for? i386->sparc64, sparc32->sparc64? the coolest part about all this is that the netbsd is going to be the first 64bit userland from what i see. btw, i'm 'zbrightmn' on #freebsd/#bsdcode Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 4.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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