From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 12 05:03:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA17711 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 05:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA17698 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 05:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA15907; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 05:02:58 -0800 (PST) To: Jason Evans cc: Chuck Robey , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Dec 1997 03:50:09 PST." Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 05:02:58 -0800 Message-ID: <15903.881931778@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > boards/cpus. These boards have integrated SCSI, PCI, and ethernet. The > memory bandwidth is almost 3x that of P6 machines. They're really, really > cool. When this port is done, my Intel boxes are going bye bye. =) Yes, I've talked to a few Sun folks about the up-and-coming stuff. I agree that it looks definitely cool and is certainly the #1 porting target of choice. Depending on how this port goes, I could easily see myself getting one of these too. ;) I'd also argue that the legacy stuff should just generally be left alone until after the majority of the SPARC architecture support is rolled into the toolchain and your UltraSPARC port is at least booting single-user. :-) Unless someone's got a serious jones on for running FreeBSD on their SPARCStation II right this very minute, waiting until you've made more progress is only in their best interest if they want maximum leverage for their own port. Jordan