From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 19 13:52:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.visi.com (baal.visi.com [209.98.98.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811C814A09 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtempel@mail.visi.com) Received: from dirac (dirac.fofx.org [209.98.236.73]) by mail.visi.com (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id PAA28906; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:52:20 -0600 (CST) Posted-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:52:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000901bf62c6$760aa900$49ec62d1@dirac> From: "Mark Tempel" To: , "John Sconiers" Cc: References: <200001191159.GAA03673@bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com> <20000119092338.Q67844@relay.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: Sparc Port -- sounds good to me Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:45:10 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "David O'Brien" To: "John Sconiers" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 11:23 AM Subject: Re: Sparc Port -- sounds good to me > On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:12:06AM -0600, John Sconiers wrote: > > Quick question....shouldn't we start with NetBSD.....I'm under the > > impression that OpenBSD's port _IS_ NetBSD's port with a few bug fixes and > > stronger security and starting from NetBSD would be easier?? > > OpenBSD was that 2.5 years ago. Think how much FreeBSD has changed in > that time -- that is how much OpenBSD has diverged from NetBSD. > > Personally I would suggest NetBSD because /usr/pkgsrc/cross/ might > provide a better starting point at the cross toolchain. > I would suggest NetBSD. This is because the alpha port was done from a NetBSD base, and we could (hopefully) leverage the knowledge gained from that port in our efforts. Mark Tempel mtempel@visi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message