From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jun 22 11:25:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.netaccess.on.ca (alpha.netaccess.on.ca [199.243.225.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9058A153CF for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:25:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@ControlQ.com) Received: from fatlady.controlq.com (dial203.nas.net [199.243.225.203]) by alpha.netaccess.on.ca (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA00784; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:25:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:25:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert S. Sciuk" Reply-To: "Robert S. Sciuk" To: Scott MacFiggen Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status? In-Reply-To: <376FCE90.FE9980E0@activesw.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Back in 1997, Jason Evans of Sun was allowed to work on a sanctioned port of FreeBSD to ultra sparc ... but as was inevitably the case, found the support flagged, and he had to focus on other activities ... he retired from active duty on the project, and it lay in limbo until a student in Italy, Paolo DeFrancesco, took a Quixotic run at the project ... as the list has been silent for some time on the matter, I consider it a closed issue, but that is JUST my opinion 8-}. Jordan Hubbard has made some very lucid statements regarding the difficulty of supporting multiple hardware platforms, as well as misrepresenting ones self as a representative of the FreeBSD project when asking hardware vendors for support (ie: don't). OpenBSD and NetBSD both work on 32 bit sparc ... I guess that's where we'll have to look for the near term. On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Scott MacFiggen wrote: > "Robert S. Sciuk" wrote: > > > > I'm not sure, but I don't think any work is being done on the 32 bit > > architectures, Sun pulled their support, and a group based in Italy seem > > to be working on the Ultra port -- but I haven't heard whether that effort > > has petered out or not ... :-{ > > > > What is this about Sun pulling support? I'm curious about the > history on this. > > -Scott > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robert S. Sciuk 1032 Howard Rd. PO Box 6A Ph:905 632-2466 Control-Q Research Burlington, Ont. Canada Fx:905 632-7417 rob@ControlQ.com L7R 3X5 http://www.ControlQ.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message