Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:26:38 -0500 From: Chuck Youse <cyouse@icon.com> To: Erik Cameron <ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones Message-ID: <98111810273402.02475@windsock.flyboy.net> References: <19981118090757.C6935@bsd.uchicago.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, you wrote: >On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:11:52AM -0500, Chuck Youse wrote: >> While support for sun4[mcd ] is a good thing, Kapil aptly pointed out that they >> really are a different architecture than the sun4u. To support both with one >> kernel is possible, but cumbersome at best. Better to separate the two. > >One kernel is insufficient if you're not releasing source code. I mean, if >we're talking about going through and isolating all of the (i386|alpha) code >out of the kernel and concentrating our rewrites on that, I don't see as how >(other than more coding) having separate sun4x and sun4u directories in the >dist would be *that* much trouble. >erik cameron -- bsd/is support services >support engineer, unix frood, sysadmin, etc. >ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu -- pager #4167 Isn't that what I said? Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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