From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 11:17:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA25187 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA25178 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA12973; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:10:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705141810.LAA12973@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD for sparc? To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:10:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: alexis@NL.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3379F6A1.5145@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at May 14, 97 10:30:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I also asked that "stupid" question in the multiplatform list :). > There is a DEC Alpha port coming, an I guess SPARC will be worked on > someday, but nothing serious yet. > Try OpenBSD :(. Jack Vogel ported FreeBSD 1.x to the SPARC. The code was never integrated. Jack Vogel also did the initial SMP work. Probably he has pieces you could use, assuming he is still on speaking terms with anyone associated with FreeBSD: Jack.Vogel@eng.sun.com Note from his address that he is in a better position than most as far as SPARC documentation goes. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.