From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 15:07:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C9837B411 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cyberonic.com (mail.cyberonic.com [4.17.179.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD93343FCB for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (node-40244c0a.sfo.onnet.us.uu.net [64.36.76.10]) by mail.cyberonic.com (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h5JMYLMo024177; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:34:22 -0400 Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.9/8.11.6) id h5JM8FIX080129; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:08:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:08:15 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: PaceMakerTaker Message-ID: <20030619220815.GC64061@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: PaceMakerTaker , freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org References: <20030619195527.53032.qmail@web13904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030619195527.53032.qmail@web13904.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I wanna help test ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:07:53 -0000 PaceMakerTaker wrote this message on Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:55 -0700: > So I've got this 270MHz Ultra 5 here with 128 and 8GB > as well as a 500MHz Blade 100 with 512 and 40GB. I'd > love to get involved in the project now that I have > time! > > For starters, I guess I'd do some testing work since I > haven't been into the FreeBSD kernel yet (Although > I've been into the Linux kernel and the SunOS kernel). > I've been doing C/C++ coding for years. > > If someone wants to point me off in the direction of > the notes and installation files, I'll jump right now. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes-sparc64.html The cd is bootable, and simple to do. Works fine over serial console, that's how I got my box up and running. > I'm sure that there is a list of stuff that needs to > be tested and/or fixed, where can I find that at? Well, once you get 5.1-R installed, tracking current is good. You might still be able to get away with using 5.1-R but not for much longer since we're already starting to diverge. Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html for more information about it. -current is what you want to follow if you want to do some testing. > I'm anxious to help and a little bored here; so > anything I can do, let me know! Well, test the applications. Already there have been a few minor bugs in apps that were pretty easy to fix. As for other things, take a look at the archives of -sparc64 for the last week or two. Thomas Moestl has a patch that uses OFW to enumerate the PCI bus instead of probing it. I also have a patch to make Multi-Function devices probe. (Both patches address similar issues, but are also complementary.) Stay tuned to the list! -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."