Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:02:23 +0100 From: Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr (Pierre Beyssac) To: jasone@canonware.com (Jason Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port Message-ID: <19971210190223.FD42136@mars.hsc.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205141315.20201G-100000@paladio>; from Jason Evans on Dec 10, 1997 08:56:25 -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205141315.20201G-100000@paladio>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
According to Jason Evans: > I don't know details), but SME is having me work on the port. I'm a > full-time employee of SME, and estimate that I can spend 30-35 hours per > week of my work week on the SPARC FreeBSD porting effort (plus whatever > personal time I spend). That looks like a great idea to me, though I'm quite surprised that Sun supports this since they've been desperately trying to kill SunOS for years... > 1) Is it possible with cvsup to maintain my own source tree with my > modifications, yet stay synched with current, so that once I have the > kernel running, I can submit a single update to the current tree (or have > someone with write access do it for me)? Since NetBSD already runs quite fine on many SPARC models, maybe it would be a good idea to consider using their code as a starting point. On the other hand they would surely be pretty interested by information you might provide them with to write drivers for obscure Sun peripherals (I for one would be dying to replace old SunOS with any recent BSD on my Sparcbook... if only there was a X11 port with the required driver for the LCD screen). -- Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19971210190223.FD42136>