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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:56:36 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, jbarbee@singular.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: future of slpha port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980603205351.421D-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806022148.OAA06351@feral.com>

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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> Yes, I'd like to actually finally say that it's a great shame
> that FreeBSD and NetBSD are different efforts- the NetBSD alpha
> effort is in quite good shape- and I've been somewhat reluctant
> to try and duplicate this for FreeBSD. Is there any way the
> FreeBSD port can import the extremely solid NetBSD/alpha work?

I have drawn very heavily on NetBSD in my porting efforts so far.  Much of
the code in locore.s could be used unchanged or with small modifications.
I am using a pmap ported from FreeBSD/i386 however since I don't really
understand the differences in the pmap/vm interface between NetBSD and
FreeBSD.

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