From owner-freebsd-sparc Fri Sep 3 10: 9:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.207.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054881547E for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from bsdbob@localhost) by weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA01932; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:14:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdbob) From: BSD Bob Message-Id: <199909031714.NAA01932@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? In-Reply-To: <19990903094953.F49271@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Sep 3, 1999 09:49:53 am" To: obrien@NUXI.com Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:14:31 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > on that?), 2) the OpenBSD 1.0 port, 3) the OpenBSD 2.5 port, the NetBSD > ^^^ > There is no OpenBSD 1.0. OpenBSD started their versioning at 2.0 (I > guess Theo considered NetBSD 1.0 to be the 1.0 version for OpenBSD). Forgive me, it was NetBSD-1.0. My error. Look on ftp.bme.hu/pub/OS/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0/sparc. I did bring it up on my SS1, on SunOS, and it seemed to work relatively well. The source tree seems to be there, but I dunno offhand if the sparc bits are there. The INSTALL file tells how to overlay the SunOS system to get it up from Sunos. > Since most don't have SunOS source, why overlay SunOS rather than NetBSD > (or OpenBSD)? That is how FreeBSD/Alpha came about. IIRC, first > NetBSD's userland was replaced with FreeBSD's (with teaks in libc for the > syscall differences). Then the NetBSD kernel grew into the FreeBSD > kernel. I was thinking of the shortest path to getting a running system. Once running, work forward from there. I don't seriously think cross-compiling is going to be the shortest path. IMHO one needs to work from either SunOS, NetBSD or OpenBSD for starters. > > The OBSD 1.0 was built from sources on a running SunOS system, > > Can you please document this? I've never heard of this before. > (that and when/how there was a 1.0 version of OpenBSD). My error, it was NetBSD 1.0. Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message