Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:15:17 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Paul Khavkine <paul@colba.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port Message-ID: <20010813191517.D221638FE@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3B75D1BA.A83D3D52@colba.net>
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Paul Khavkine wrote: > Hi folks. > > I been a FreeBSD user for a few years now. I have recently acquired an > UltraSPARC > workstation (Ultra 1) and want to participate in the port. > What have been done so far, how far did we get ? There is a sparc64 port in very active progress right now. It has made it to the point of running /sbin/init and doing a syscall. ie: interrupts are running, user mode has basic functionality, etc. Probably the biggest missing thing is device drivers for real hardware [vs. ramdisks]. I suspect there are also missing chunks of the pmap module for userland, eg: paging, swapping, etc. I dont believe signals are done yet, but by the time you read this, that will probabaly have all changed. :-) I would not be surpised if sparc64 has basic functionality in 5.0-Release at the rate that it is going. It appears to be ahead of ia64 even. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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