Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:10:38 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@k7.locore.ca> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: review: sparc64 port commit candidate Message-ID: <200107300010.f6U0Ac366279@k7.locore.ca> In-Reply-To: Message from Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> of "Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:19:47 CDT." <20010729181947.F92318@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:41:24AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > and here is a dump of how far it gets: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/tip.record > > One thing I did notice here was the OpenBoot prom version (3.15) which, > to be blunt, is something Noah had installed on his navigation systems. > > OpenBoot 3.29 is the latest, and did solve a few weird booting issues > for NetBSD/sparc64 for me. Solaris patch number is 106121-14 (which > needs Solaris to install). I can provide if necessary. Hmm. Its not my machine, so I'm not in a position to upgrade it, but thanks for the info. > > > > This isn't really ready for mass consumption yet, as there's no > > official loader and you need to build a cross compiler yourself, > > but its a start. > > On the subject of cross-compilers, I've been looking at the various > toolchains that NetBSD/sparc64, which are all 2.95.* based, and seem > to have major issues with C++ -- perhaps such a port (which I can > certainly help with) should be based around 3.0? I may be wrong, but its my understanding that sparc64 is not officially supported in 3.0. The files are there but I've had no luck building it so far; we may have to wait for 3.1 :-/ > > Cool work, BTW.. depending on RealJob constraints, I may be able > to ship you a U5 so that you can work on it locally if you're > interested. Semi-permanent loan until it boots single user :) That would be excellent. There's just enough lag to the box I work on now to be highly annoying (almost the entire port was written over ssh). There are quite a few ultra 10s available locally on ebay which I've been looking at, I just haven't been at my current job long enough to save up. > > And again, once things have settled down in RealWorld, I'll should > very well be able to organize remote access to E450's and E4500's > (got a couple of them lying around spare -- too big to be shipped). That would also be excellent. I wouldn't want to try to ship one to Canada from the US :). Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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