Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 12:47:51 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release date? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990307123704.17202B-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <7btvis$476$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 7 Mar 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Oliver Fromme <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > Only very few volunteers work on the Sparc64 port at the moment in > > their spare time. > > Not to step on anybody's toes, but is there anybody at all working on > the sparc64 port? I mean, this list seems to be made up mainly of people > who are waiting for the port to just appear. I'm _sort of_ working on it. I've never done work this involved with freebsd and low level systems before, I'm not heading _anything_ i just noticed it was dead here and asked for some pointers. My current job requires very long hours, weekends as well, many deadlines, etc... (*) It seems to do this work you need to be not only an expert at assembler, but also an expert with gcc/egcs. I can claim some level of clue with machine lang, but hacking gcc, rebuiling it, hacking, rebuilding quite easily exahuasts the time i have. My advice to those waiting? wait harder, we need more waiters. -Alfred (*) it helps if you play a small violin at this point. > > I've noticed that this week support for mips has popped up in various > places throughout the CURRENT source tree, probably related to the mips > port that appears to be progressing in near secrecy. No signs of sparc > as yet. You know what you can do with that snideness don't you? :) > > (Back to lurking.) > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > 100+ SF Book Reviews: <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/reviews/>; > > > > 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
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