From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Nov 17 15:52:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12936 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:52:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12927 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:52:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA02687; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:50:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199811172350.AAA02687@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: Sparc Booting Process In-Reply-To: <19981117191818.ELKB23830.fep03-svc@winworkstation> from Paolo Di Francesco at "Nov 17, 98 08:19:59 pm" To: paipai@tin.it (Paolo Di Francesco) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:50:07 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Paolo Di Francesco: > How the Sparc hw boots up? Where can I find more infos, documents and so on? Sorry, can't help there. > Can someone test my code? ( I do not have a sparc box... 8( ) There seems to be some people on this list willing to do that... > I don't think sparc asm will be very far from i386 asm. I hope.... ;) Fortunately it's NOT close to i386. It's a RISC, and it's non-intel. Adds up to "much nicer than i386". :-) Personally I've become quite fond of another RISC (from some labs we did at the university), the mips. :-) /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message