From owner-freebsd-platforms Sat Mar 15 13:57:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11945 for platforms-outgoing; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 13:57:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au (root@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.AU [129.78.97.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11937 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 13:56:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au (srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.97.129]) by flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA20153; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:56:14 +1000 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:56:14 +1000 (EST) From: Stephen Robert Norris Reply-To: Stephen Robert Norris Subject: Re: Some one working on a SPARC version? To: Pedro Giffuni cc: Stephen Robert Norris , freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <332B3F75.40E8@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id NAA11941 Sender: owner-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Oops, sorry, no hint on that on their pages...BTW, are they keeping one > tree (like NetBSD) or are they keeping different distributions for each > box? The source tree has: alpha i386 m68k mips ppc sparc in it. There's an SGI port underway, which may be in the current development kernels, I'm not sure. > The NetBSD SPARC port is impressing, it runs SunOS 4.1 stuff and > emulates some Solaris also. Since we canīt beat them...I guess we will > some day copy most of their stuff. > > Pedro. Yes, the Linux SPARC port also runs SunOS 4.1 stuff (I think it must be fairly easy)... It also does SMP, which is handy, given the number of SMP suns around. Stephen