From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Mar 9 23:46:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bsd4us.org (cn386092-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.46.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07B6B37B96E for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lyndon@bsd4us.org) Received: (qmail 11143 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Mar 2000 07:43:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Mar 2000 07:43:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:43:14 -0500 (EST) From: Lyndon Griffin To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: merger information 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 well, I don't really know anything outside of what is in the press release and what has been speculated on daemonnews and (shudder) slashdot. What I think I know is that, even though BSD/OS has a SPARC port, there is going to be a significant amount of time before that work can be merged into the FreeBSD tree, and there are going to be large portions of that work that need to be at least tweaked. It's a reasonable assumption (in fact, I think I read for sure) that merging will happen on the 4.x-CURRENT branch once a 4.0-STABLE branch has started. Also, I have no idea here, but I believe that we'll probably run across some encumbered code in the BSD/OS tree, which means that (unless you work for BSDi - I don't) you won't be able to see the code. I don't know how this will be addressed when there are instances that there is encumbered code and open-source code that overlap the same functionality (device drivers, for instance), but I would assume that in the tradition of FreeBSD being open-source software that by default the open-source pieces will be included in the dist, while the encumbered pieces will be available as binary downloads. The more I type this, the more questions I have. I hope that no one here gets discouraged from continuing work that is already begun: just having the port in release is only the first step. I would like to throw together a list of questions/concerns that we have and pose that list to Core - it will help us channel our future efforts into making FreeBSD/SPARC really exist. My first, and probably most important, question is this: when can we have access to the BSD/OS SPARC code so that we can get moving? Anyone else want to chime in? <:) Lyndon Griffin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message