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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:56:14 +1000 (EST)
From:      Stephen Robert Norris <srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
Cc:        Stephen Robert Norris <srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au>, freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some one working on a SPARC version?
Message-ID:  <ML-2.3.858462974.1109.srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <332B3F75.40E8@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>

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> 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




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