From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 11 00:38:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA19337 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:38:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA19332 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA25497; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:37:52 -0800 (PST) To: Chuck Robey cc: Jason Evans , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:02:16 EST." Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:37:52 -0800 Message-ID: <25493.881829472@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Actually, used Sparc stuff seems to be readily, and cheaply available. I Yes, but not the 64-bit UltraSPARC, and that's what this port is initially (and perhaps forever) going to be targetted at. The cheap hardware is only likely to be good for running NetBSD in the short-to-medium term, but if that's what you're into then go for it. :-) For the record, I doubt that adding support for the earlier SPARCs is going to be as trivial as everyone expects, and I don't expect Jason Evans' bosses to put too much effort into this either considering that the already-sold hardware is not very important to their bottom line. :) Remember that we *had* a SPARC port at one stage but it died for lack of attention (I don't even think anyone even has the bits around anymore), so if something's not done directly by Jason then I'm a bit skeptical about it happening at all. Jordan