From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jul 9 2:31:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from nt.server.ferrari.net (host1.ferrari-ag.de [62.159.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB9037B403; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@ferrari.de) Received: from obelix.develop.ferrari.net ([10.2.0.60]) by nt.server.ferrari.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 3G1JXL73; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:30:23 +0200 Received: (from robert@localhost) by obelix.develop.ferrari.net (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f699TJR01357; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:29:19 +0200 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:29:18 +0200 From: Robert Drehmel To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port progress note Message-ID: <20010709112918.A1309@obelix.develop.ferrari.net> References: <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net> <20010709020809.E15863@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010709020809.E15863@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:08:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:08:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:53:28AM +0200, Robert Drehmel wrote: > > I wrote the MD part for the FreeBSD/sparc64 loader; > > it has been tested on a Sun Ultra 5 (I bought one > > How do we get it to review it? The question for me is whether someone wants to review this or not. When I am at home, I can send you the source, binaries or try to make a filesystem image for booting off a swap partition. > > > Can we *please* rename this port to FreeBSD/sparcv9? > > This is in my opinion much more appropriate, because > > there might be 64 bit SPARC processors in the future > > that are not V9 compatible and can thus not be supported > > by this port. > > And why wouldn't we just add the v10 bits to the sparc64 code when a v10 > comes out?? In which ways will V9 and V10 differ? I just think that we cannot support every future 64 bit SPARC architecture with one port. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message ciao, -robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message