From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Nov 5 11:56:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22198 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:56:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22193 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:56:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA09725; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA19891; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:55:42 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id MAA20126; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:55:41 -0700 Message-ID: <364202BD.D217FD0D@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 12:55:41 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein CC: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > ok, well there does seem to be a few people subscribed to this list. > > some questions to help me get started: > > a) Any URLs to Usparc assembler language (detailed) > b) Any recommended books > > a&b for: sbus info, creator info, the scsi interface, serial interface The first place to look is http://docs.sun.com/ They may have much of what you need on-line, in HTML or PDF. > i don't plan on supporting much as this is the first time i'm doing > something like this. however i did purchase the box explicilty for this > purpose. so i'm really counting on some pointers. > > other stuff: > > netbsd seems to have a usparc port, but i don't see any support in their > source tree, any pointers/clues? As mentioned in another response, the sparc64 port is in the -current build tree. They currently support the ultra1/ultra2 systems, not the PCI-based ultra5 and ultra10. You may want to contact the NetBSD sparc64 port maintainer and find out what they're doing. > if anyone wants to donate a book on the arch to me i'll pay for > shipping+whatever (if you want a small return on the book) > unfortunatly all i have is books on PA-RISC, x86 and PPC archs, well > PDP-11 if you count the Lions Book. :) I have several SPARClite books around, but that isn't going to help you, as they are a (distant) subset of UltraSPARC. Good luck! -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message