From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Aug 20 1:43:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from darren2.lnk.telstra.net (darren2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.53.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98DD37B424; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 01:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by darren2.lnk.telstra.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) id IAA00819; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 08:43:07 GMT From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <200008200842.SAA07457@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Subject: Re: Integration of Net/OpenBSD code (was Re: your mail) In-Reply-To: <88769.966757232@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 20, 0 00:40:32 am" To: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:42:42 +1000 (EST) Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL37 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In some email I received from Jordan K. Hubbard, sie wrote: > I'm not sure I understand what [practical] suggestions you're > making here. I think people should build upon their strengths, at this stage, rather than spread themselves around. From comments made by others, I tend to think that it is less than trivial to add sparc plus it would seem that resources for it aren't exactly overwhelming. If people are saying the x86 part of FreeBSD is weakening (some say since the adoption of alpha) I don't think it is a good idea to start (or promote) work on a sparc port. To me, having people (not me!) make those sort of comments should be ringing alarm bells for those behind FreeBSD given its core user base is x86. Personally, I think it is more important for FreeBSD to concentrate on getting IA-64 (and AMD 64bit) support happening than for sparc64 and that sparc64 is a waste of time/effort for FreeBSD. Concentrate on what FreeBSD is good at doing and don't get distracted. Darren --- NetBSD/sparc64 - self-hosting for the new millennium! Port Home page: - http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/ Complete 64bit snapshots: - ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc64/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message