From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Dec 15 19:19:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA16148 for sparc-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA16130 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:19:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id DAA24149; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 03:16:31 GMT Message-ID: <19971215191631.53874@relay.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:16:31 -0800 From: "David E. O'Brien" To: "Christopher R. Bowman" Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freeloading FreeBSD for Free -- NOT! Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19971215172944.51352@relay.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Christopher R. Bowman on Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 10:18:07PM -0500 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I would suggest that as a first step we should compile a list of documents > pointers and URLs to information on SUN hardware Good suggestion. > do they use open firmware, what does the prom include, OpenBoot is the bootloader on Sun workstations. There are some newer Sparcs on a card, that I have no idea about. Sun has published a lot of documentation on it. OpenBoot is roughly Forth and FWIK quite programmable. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)