Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:20:54 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Cc: "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" <jamil@acroal.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS Ports Message-ID: <199712110220.SAA14152@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:30:32 PST." <Pine.LNX.3.95.971210151952.19030I-100000@paladio>
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>On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect wrote: >> Wouldn't porting -stable first be a better project, after all you want a >> quality product and that is what stable is. If it was me I would start >> there, cvsup to RELENG_22 and take a crack at it. > >Well, it would be easier, but then comes the problem of moving the port to >current once it works. That would probably be as bad a doing the port in >the first place. From what I understand, FreeBSD 1.1 was ported to SPARC >way back, but it never got merged back in to the development tree. I'm >guessing it was because of something like this. I don't want to pour Saying that FreeBSD 1.x was "ported" to the Sparc would be more than a little bit of a stretch. The kernel, which was a weird kludge of NetBSD and FreeBSD got to single user, but I think that is less than 10% of the way there. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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