From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 18:18:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA18718 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:18:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA18705 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:17:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA14152; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:20:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712110220.SAA14152@implode.root.com> To: Jason Evans cc: "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS Ports In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:30:32 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:20:54 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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