From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Aug 16 13:54:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083B637B577; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:54:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02727; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:54:10 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: David DeTinne , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <75425.966459104@localhost> 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 Jordan- what's the status of the BSDi merge && a sparc port? I sort of thought that something that works would then "just arrive"? On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Is the sparc port really dead? > > I'm not sure I'd say it was dead so much as lying deeply asleep, > waiting for a kiss from a prince of programming. :-) > > In short, there are lots of SPARCs out there and lots of programmers > out there. What we need now is one or more of those programmers to > actually start the ball rolling and convince more hacking talent to > join in, just as it happened with the Alpha port. > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message