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From: jbg@masterplan.org (Jason George)
To: bright@hotjobs.com, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, jbg@masterplan.org
Subject: Re: Starting point?
Organization: The Master Plan Always Fails...
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:15:54 GMT
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I don't have much extra time on my hands, but I do have access to a 
Sparc 5 clone for build testing and to a significant amount of extra 
network capacity.

I will offer the bandwidth (a barely used 2Mbit SDSL line located in 
Western Canada - a T3 and a few hops away from Sprint's Cheyenne, 
Wyoming POP) and a box to host a FTP repository if anyone's interested.

Contact me via e-mail.

--Jason
jbg<at>masterplan.org
j.b.george<at>ieee.org

>
>if we port 2.2.x we are doomed.  3.0 is the way to go.
>
>3.0 also has a LOT more in terms of portability done from the work towards
>the alpha port.
>
>Still need to pick up those sparc arch books, i'll be doing that sometime
>this week. :)
>
>As far as availability/skills i'm not too available, but will probably
>spend 50% of my free time on this (which isn't a lot)
>
>What i know i can do:
>write sparc asm, (as soon as i get the books)
>wrapper libc
>some of the simple stuff in the low level kernel libraries
>
>i haven't done stuff with protected mode coding (page tables, iopl, etc.)
>but i hope to learn.
>
>Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
>-- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
>-- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current
>

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