From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 17 15:36:48 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C2E37B401; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:36:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail2.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD2C43EEA; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:36:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: from sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alcanet.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.4/Alcanet1.3) with ESMTP id gBHNaiY1020248; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:44 +1100 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au ([139.188.20.247]) by sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.11) with ESMTP id 2002121810364341:17153 ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:43 +1100 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBHNahA9051458; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:43 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gBHNag51051457; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:42 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:42 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: John Merryweather Cooper Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Message-ID: <20021217233642.GU15322@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: John Merryweather Cooper , cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org References: <20021217.103409.105683273.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021217202351.GO15322@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <1040160158.20854.29.camel@pc016247.reshall.uidaho.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1040160158.20854.29.camel@pc016247.reshall.uidaho.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 18/12/2002 10:36:43 AM, Serialize by Router on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 18/12/2002 10:36:44 AM, Serialize complete at 18/12/2002 10:36:44 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-Dec-17 13:22:38 -0800, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: >develop. Along those lines, the Open Watcom project now has it's >development sources online, and the Open Watcom compiler, descended from >the Watcom commercial compiler, is now online. See > >http://www.openwatcom.org/license_info/open_watcom_lic.html This is substantially larger than bcc and AFAIK no-one's done a FreeBSD port for it yet. There's also an issue of integration and support - boot2 is part of buildworld so the toolchain to build it must be part of FreeBSD. I suspect importing bcc would create far fewer problems than importing Open Watcom (especially since the author of bcc is already a FreeBSD developer). My feeling is that neither of these approaches are ideal - but neither is having to write and build a cross-gcc just to compile boot2. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message