From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Aug 13 16:36:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from orbital.mtl.posixnet.org (orbital.mtl.posixnet.org [66.38.182.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FF137B408 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:36:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@colba.net) Received: from colba.net (localhost.mtl.posixnet.org [127.0.0.1]) by orbital.mtl.posixnet.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7DNeHp04127; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:40:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul@colba.net) Message-ID: <3B786560.D553DF0B@colba.net> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:40:17 -0400 From: Paul Khavkine X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port References: <20010813191517.D221638FE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 -- "Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead." -- Homer J. Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message