Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:22:52 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Lyndon Griffin <lgriffin@bsd4us.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "base" system Message-ID: <3887284C.7712C2EE@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10001191901360.5052-100000@ns.bsd4us.org>
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Lyndon Griffin wrote:
>
> In going over all the posts the past two days, I think it would be best if
> we use NetBSD as our "base" system. This gives us a number of advantages:
> * leveraging knowledge of previous porting efforts (FreeBSD/axp)
> * possibility of using NetBSD's cross-compiler port (in fact, there is
> not an openbsd-sparc target for gcc/binutils/gdb in the distributions)
> * leveraging platform dependent code from netbsd/sparc
> * for the most part, those that have expressed opinion on which to
> use seem to want netbsd
>
> I think that pretty well closes the case. Let's call this a decision and
> move forward from it - any objections or concerns?
I already have NetBSD on two systems. I'm slightly ahead of you.
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