From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 14:18:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06153 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05990 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id XAA02604; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 23:15:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA20825; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:21:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980806222143.A17976@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:21:43 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Terry Lambert , Tom Cc: ken@plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS References: <199808050801.BAA21512@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199808050801.BAA21512@usr02.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 08:01:50AM +0000 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 08:01:50AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > The device driver layer of x86-SPIN utilizes code from the > FreeBSD Operating System. For this reason SPIN has to be > booted on a machine that has a FreeBSD file system. We get ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > this by doing a minimal install of FreeBSD on the x86 machines > where SPIN will be run. In addition we have a boot loader > program (salboot.com) that runs either from a dos partition > on the disk or from a floppy. > > For historic reasons x86-SPIN needs to be built on a Linux ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > machine. It may be possible to build x86-SPIN in a different > posix environment but we have not attempted this and couldn't > provide help if you ran into problems. In order to build the > FreeBSD portions of SPIN on Linux, some cross development ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > tools are required. Sources for these tools are available as > a single file (bsdtools.tar.gz) here at our site. Sounds a bit sick ;-) We should make a FreeBSD port ;-)) -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message