Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:53:28 +0200 From: Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari.de> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: port progress note Message-ID: <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net>
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Hello. I wrote the MD part for the FreeBSD/sparc64 loader; it has been tested on a Sun Ultra 5 (I bought one for porting FreeBSD) and works without problems. It boots (presently from a NetBSD UFS partition) a standalone FreeBSD kernel, which consists only of the MD part (pmap stuff, traps, syscalls, ...) I wrote so far, and executes it. Many type changes in src/sys/boot/ofw/libofw for openfirm.* and harddisk support stuff in ofw_disk.c were needed - libofw as it is in the tree - is completely broken for LP64. Can we *please* rename this port to FreeBSD/sparcv9? This is in my opinion much more appropriate, because there might be 64 bit SPARC processors in the future that are not V9 compatible and can thus not be supported by this port. (and all my code uses "sparcv9", "__sparcv9__", ...) If anyone is interested in this code, just tell me. Since I do not want the situation stay in the current nothing-happening state for the next years, I could `maintain` this port if you think this makes sense. ciao, -robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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