Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:29:18 +0200 From: Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari.de> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port progress note Message-ID: <20010709112918.A1309@obelix.develop.ferrari.net> In-Reply-To: <20010709020809.E15863@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:08:09AM -0700 References: <20010709105328.A1149@obelix.develop.ferrari.net> <20010709020809.E15863@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:08:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:53:28AM +0200, Robert Drehmel wrote: > > I wrote the MD part for the FreeBSD/sparc64 loader; > > it has been tested on a Sun Ultra 5 (I bought one > > How do we get it to review it? The question for me is whether someone wants to review this or not. When I am at home, I can send you the source, binaries or try to make a filesystem image for booting off a swap partition. > > > 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 why wouldn't we just add the v10 bits to the sparc64 code when a v10 > comes out?? In which ways will V9 and V10 differ? I just think that we cannot support every future 64 bit SPARC architecture with one port. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message ciao, -robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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