From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 3 12:56:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17737 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17698 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:56:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01059; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:56:36 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:56:36 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Jacob cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, jbarbee@singular.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of slpha port In-Reply-To: <199806022148.OAA06351@feral.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message