From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 11 12:46:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA13470 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 12:46:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13449 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 12:45:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.1/nospam) with UUCP id VAA03424 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 21:45:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.8/keltia-2.13/nospam) id VAA03275; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 21:16:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19971211211621.19547@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 21:16:21 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port References: <26799.881843800@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <26799.881843800@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 04:36:40AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3883 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > want to start with the compiler issues first then, eh? Peter? Soren? > John Polstra? You might wish to step forward and shake hands with > Jason here, guys, because he's probably going to be the principal > motive force behind your toolchain upgrade in -current! :-) Speaking of toolchain, it would be better IMO to use ELF for the SPARC port (which may speed up the X86 ELF too :-)). I don't think anyone wants to port our a.out hacks for shared libs to SPARC... :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #19: Tue Dec 9 20:17:10 CET 1997