From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jan 27 22:41:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476761571B for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:41:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id WAA19593 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:41:18 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id WAA03140; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:41:18 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.236]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id WAA27865 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:41:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38913B37.4F3388F3@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:46:15 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timeline for development References: <001f01bf6934$81f53590$49ec62d1@dirac> <38910B7D.8D9A5929@softweyr.com> <20000127192708.N29338@relay.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:22:37PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > Keep in mind that building the FreeBSD userland can happen using NetBSD > > as a base in parallel with much of the kernel development. Though the > > kernel is the "hard" part, there is a LOT of userland, and I heartily > > recommend turning loose those who are interested in that part of the > > port ASAP. > > Agreed. I managed to build about 1/4 of the FreeBSD userland under > NetBSD/arm32. I have the directions & src patches to follow I could > clean up and post. > > The libc is the major stumbling block to gettting more of userland to > compile. [ie, I was using NetBSD's libc, rather than getting our libc to > build] libc might be a really good starting point for someone who knows (or wants to learn) how to hack library code. > > No, but I can tell you your best bet is to pick a home for the cross tools > > and dump the entire set of FreeBSD include files in that home somewhere. > > Note that I am working on a platform neutral > src/contrib/gcc/config/freebsd.h that is usable by i386, Alpha, arm32, > PPC, sparc, etc... BUT all the buildworld/release breakage have had me > spending man days chashing that rather than finishing this work. 'sallright, getting 4.0 solid and stable is more important than SPARC at this moment anyhow. I'd love to have FreeBSD to run on Pixie (my IPX), but I'd much rather have 4.0 out there making the world safe for Yahoo again. -- "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