From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Nov 17 11:19:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27319 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:19:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep03-svc.tin.it (mta03-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27267 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:18:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paipai@box4.tin.it) Received: from winworkstation ([212.216.234.136]) by fep03-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19981117191810.ELJR23830.fep03-svc@winworkstation> for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:18:10 +0100 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Paolo Di Francesco" To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:19:59 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: What we need X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Message-Id: <19981117191810.ELJR23830.fep03-svc@winworkstation> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How to start the porting process? Well, we need (I think) 1) Documentation references. Something like "read this, that, and those documents BEFORE you start coding...." Possibly the docs must be in PDF (or portable) format, but always (when possible) on the net. 2) The list of all avaible Sparc Box. So you can tell someone else to try to compile the latest version of your beautiful code 8) 3) A common development environment. To port an O.S. you need another O.S. and a crosscompiler. Maybe we need Sparc boxes, but you can use an Intel box to write and crosscompile code. I think the best situation is: o Sparc Box (ultrasparc, etc...) o Solaris or NetBSD on the SPARC BOX o a cross compiler -> gcc I think, because we have to use it when the porting process will be complete o the same source code or environment on the dev. machine More ideas? Ciao Ciao Paolo Di Francesco _ ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message