Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:06:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Martin Minkus <diskiller@diskiller.net>, Gerald Heinig <Gerald.Heinig@post.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone out there ? Message-ID: <39F7757D.9B13EDD4@softweyr.com> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC4@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <029901c03e0d$6bb058b0$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> <39F68D1C.45F9F336@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > Martin Minkus wrote: > > > > I subscribed to this list a few days ago, and after hearing nothing but > > crickets (and the occasional NT server reboot far off in the distance) i > > thought it was time to shake the stick, and see what response i can get ;) > > Seems good so far :-) > > > > I have a Sun IPX, and Sun SparcServer 10 (both of which i picked up for free > > recently). > > > > Okay. > > > > I believe the website (http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc/) > > shows there was a bias to simply develop for PCI based Ultra's (Sparc64 > > port?), which i definately have no access to. (Unless i can steal one from > > my university ;-) > > > > It appears there are several people with the older 32bit Sparcs on this > > list, but they don't have any coding experience. I do, but only in > > userspace, though i've been slowly trying to make my move up into the kernel > > :) > > > > It appears there would have to be two seperate ports, FreeBSD/sparc, and > > FreeBSD/sparc64, but only differing in the kernel, the userspace would be > > the same? This appears to be what Linux (I just read the UltraLinux website) > > have done, and so has Net and OpenBSD. > > > > I have little experience with the sparc architecture, so i'm unaware of the > > differences (between Sparc and Sparc64), but if the two are vastly > > different, we'll have two maintain two seperate porting efforts... (OpenBSD > > has done this, but the Sparc64 port has lagged and/or is dead) > > > > The linux kernel also seems to do some funky shit like binary patch itself > > on boot ... :/ > > Shit is right. Trust me, you can "binary patch" 32-bit SPARC instructions > into 64-bit SPARC instructions. Oh, great. That ^^^ was SUPPOSED to say "can't". -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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