Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:40:17 -0400 From: Paul Khavkine <paul@colba.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port Message-ID: <3B786560.D553DF0B@colba.net> References: <20010813191517.D221638FE@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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This excellent.
Where's the code ? I have seen some early code before but would be nice to
look at the current
state of things.
Also because i have an SBus based systems, i need to find Sbus specs. IEEE
wants money for them.
Anyone has them ?
Thanx
Paul
Peter Wemm wrote:
> Paul Khavkine wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > I been a FreeBSD user for a few years now. I have recently acquired an
> > UltraSPARC
> > workstation (Ultra 1) and want to participate in the port.
> > What have been done so far, how far did we get ?
>
> There is a sparc64 port in very active progress right now. It has made it
> to the point of running /sbin/init and doing a syscall. ie: interrupts are
> running, user mode has basic functionality, etc.
>
> Probably the biggest missing thing is device drivers for real hardware [vs.
> ramdisks]. I suspect there are also missing chunks of the pmap module for
> userland, eg: paging, swapping, etc. I dont believe signals are done yet,
> but by the time you read this, that will probabaly have all changed. :-)
>
> I would not be surpised if sparc64 has basic functionality in 5.0-Release
> at the rate that it is going. It appears to be ahead of ia64 even.
>
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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