From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Nov 2 11:43:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DE137B4CF for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13rQGd-00007y-00; Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:43:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3A01C3D7.AE89F7B0@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:43:19 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Minkus Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBoot (was Re: Anyone out there ?) References: <016a01c03d9d$eb2c6950$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <39F5BD2D.2F978990@post.rwth-aachen.de> <009801c04336$7e45ea20$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <39FF5BA1.13A26A16@post.rwth-aachen.de> <002c01c043d7$eab6c4d0$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <20001101000835.H5844@dragon.nuxi.com> <004401c043de$c2ddf260$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <20001101004422.I5844@dragon.nuxi.com> <005001c043e1$669b4bd0$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Martin Minkus wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 07:05:55PM +1030, Martin Minkus wrote: > > > > > > Which source tree do i cvsup ? Only alpha and i386 is in the src-sys > > > distrubution. Then again, i'm only following 4.x-stable, not -current. > > > > Doing any porting work using 4-stable is a waste of time. New platform > > support can only go into -current. Which is where the OpenBoot bits will > > land. > > Well naturally that makes sense. > > However i don't really expect the FreeBSD/sparc32 port to become an official > port. (So its not particularly important which codebase i use; a previous > post was recommending i use FreeBSD 2.2.7). > > Also as i stated in a previous post, this is mostly a learning exercise so i > can work on the /sparc64 port if i ever get an Ultra. :). All i have is a > Sparc10 atm, and i have to make do with this for now. > > Sparc64 is alot more complicated, with 32bit and 64bit kernels, and 32bit > and 64bit userspace, or mixes between the two. But FreeBSD/sparc64 needn't be. NetBSD has separate ports for sparc and sparc64. Given the toolchain differences (and difficulties) this is probably a wise decision. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message