Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:22:40 -0400 From: Bush Doctor <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: kdulzo@gerp.org, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advancing FreeBSD/sparc Message-ID: <20000823112240.A54815@goku.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000822135706.C86875@hub.freebsd.org>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:57:06PM -0700 References: <20000822152456.A13607@caffeine.gerp.org> <20000822135706.C86875@hub.freebsd.org>
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Out of da blue David O'Brien aka (obrien@FreeBSD.ORG) said: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:24:57PM -0500, Kevin M. Dulzo wrote: > > I see no reason to exclude older machines from a port of FreeBSD as > > many of these lunch/pizza boxes can be had rather cheaply and are quite > > effective at accomplishing tasks. > > Some disagree about this. > > > I plan to work heavily on the 4c and 4m initially as a 4u machine is > > quite out of my reach. > > I have offered a few U1/170's loaners (IFF you are actually going to do > something to move the FreeBSD/sparc64 port forward). > > > Another issue had to deal with tracking changes/committing and > > which branch(es) should be used. I have no idea on this one, current > > would make the most sense, a majority of my familiarity is in the stable > > branch. > > If you want any work done to be folded back into the offical FreeBSD code > repository, the work *MUST* be done on -CURRENT. Trying to merge any > RELENG_4 kernel work back into -CURRENT would be very painful. Is http://www.freebsd.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc the official web page for the sparc port? I've also come across Lyndon Griffin freebsd-sparc page at http://bsd4us.org/fsparc/. Both pages were last modified in January 2000. Should one take that as the latest information on the status of the port? > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > #;^) -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. bush doctor <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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