From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Nov 17 16:21:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20327 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from plaidsocks.com (c35486-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.1.70.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20319 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Received: from localhost (stefan@localhost) by plaidsocks.com (8.8.8/1.3.2) with SMTP id QAA23314; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:16:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:16:07 -0800 (PST) From: Stefan Molnar X-Sender: stefan@c35486-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com 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 Try www.sunhelp.com and you will find the OpenBoot FAQ and the NVRAM FAQ. 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. :-) > > /Mikael > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message