From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 19 3:57:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [209.191.58.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5AB714F49 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 03:57:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com) Received: from bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com (root@bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com [209.191.59.30]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA15787; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:57:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA03673; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:59:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <200001191159.GAA03673@bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: Sparc Port -- sounds good to me In-Reply-To: <38856163.664AFF6D@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Jan 19, 2000 00:01:55 am" To: Wes Peters Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:59:21 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 732-935-0629 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Bill Pechter wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 07:32:09 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Lyndon Griffin > > > Subject: hello ello llo lo o > > > > > > Breaking the silence is a tough thing to do. My roommie and I have kinda > > > sorta adopted the port to the 32bit SPARC architectures. We consider > > > ourselves in the research phase of this little endeavour. I'll do > > > a quick dump of our status, and then ask a few questions (is there anyone > > > even here?). > > > > Glad to see someone's interested in this one. > > > > Well, I'm lurking with a Sparc IPX and a Sparc2 clone (Opus) > > with 64mb memory each... > > I've managed to accumulate a 4/110, an IPC, and an IPX in the past year. I've > also managed to accumulate a year's worth of SPARC assembler programming, I'm > sure that will come in handy every once in a while. > > I'm willing to pitch in with locore.s and other assembler bits, as needed. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ > > Great... Should we start with OpenBSD and begin with the userland stuff first to see how much ports over easily? Oops... We've got even more hardware. I forgot the ELC I've got as well... Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bpechter@monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org|pechter@pechter.bsdonline.org Three things never anger: First, the one who runs your DEC, The one who does Field Service and the one who signs your check. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message