Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:15:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@visi.com> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootstrapping FreeBSD/Alpha Message-ID: <199806230015.TAA02098@bambi.visi.com> In-Reply-To: <199806222311.JAA29214@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Jun 23, 98 09:11:09 am"
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| There is now a quicker way to get up and running if you are prepared to | wallop the NetBSD installation or if you have a second disk. Yes, this is a dedicated box for this effort, so I can do what I want with it. Can you define "wallop"? | This way you | get the FreeBSD tools where the 'make world' build expects them to be | and you can just build normally. The build leaves out some programs and | you continue to use those from NetBSD. | | I can provide you with tarballs if you want to proceed with this. I looked at the "Alpha port status page" (green/yellow/red/blue dots) and my idea was to help turn things green. I'll take whatever route will get me to a "productive" state where I can be of some help. If that route is the tarballs, then yes, I'd like them. (Either you can point me to FTP where I can get them, or I can make space available here for you to put them.) | I (and a few others) use a hacked NetBSD kernel | for the time being, but the sources for this will _not_ be committed to | the FreeBSD tree. Anyone wanting to work on FreeBSD/Alpha is welcome | to use this kernel until Doug is ready. Yes, I had understood this. I won't be of much help with kernel hacking; I just need one that is sufficient for userland work. Would this hacked kernel be one of the above-mentioned tarballs? Thanks a lot for your help with getting me going, John. | No patch is required now. The FreeBSD sources have been updated to handle | the varargs properly. Yes, I noticed this one vanish when I cvsupped this morning. -- Brent J. Nordquist / bjn@visi.com W: +1 612 905-7806 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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