From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Nov 17 16:13:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18870 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:13:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18840 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA09934; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:15:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:15:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Mikael Karpberg cc: Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc Booting Process In-Reply-To: <199811172350.AAA02687@ocean.campus.luth.se> 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 On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > 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. :-) > Yup, you should take a look at the PA-RISC arch, it's simply amazing how well you could design an optimizing compiler for it. I also find the MIPS to be much cooler that SPARC. But this is something i'm interested in working on. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message