From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Dec 15 19:14:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA15695 for sparc-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (crb.mnsinc.com [206.239.213.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA15685 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA05110; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:18:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:18:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: "David E. O'Brien" cc: Dale Walker , "Robert S. Sciuk" , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freeloading FreeBSD for Free -- NOT! In-Reply-To: <19971215172944.51352@relay.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, David E. O'Brien wrote: >> > Is there an authoritative voice here to indicate the current state of >> > the project, > >> Is there a core member guiding this effort?? I hope so... I'm sure pretty >> soon that they will make an announcement - please.... > >At this point in time, there are no core members involved in this (that I >know of). I will let the "main man" announce himself. > > >> > Running Kernel to start with?? > >Nope. > > >> what can be provide (ie FAQ's, current kernel src tree, etc, etc) >..snip.. >> will this be developed hand in hand with i386 FreeBSD, or will it be a >> separate entity (at least until out of alpha)?? > >Source tree organization and distribution has yet to be figured out. > > >> What resources do we need to set up: suggestions.... >> 1. FAQ on FreeBSD-sparc > >Good idea. So what are the frequently asked questions? >(email me and I can start that list). > >> 3. FTP'ible source tree > >Come now. We can do better than FTP. :-) We, FreeBSD, are the inventors >of CVSup. > >> 4. Web Pages?? > >I guess we could hang them off of www.freebsd.org. > >-- >-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > James says: "Grad school sucks." I would suggest that as a first step we should compile a list of documents pointers and URLs to information on SUN hardware, do they use open firmware, what does the prom include, where would I go to find out about the sparc architecture and the initial processor target that this port is using. Where would one go to get information on the board? etc.. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com My home page