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From: mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green)
Subject: Re: NetBSD Hardware Project
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References: <CwJnKs.5nC@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <1994Oct6.015737.1868@brains.GUN.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 01:09:54 GMT
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kirk@brains.GUN.de (Thomas Weyergraf) writes:
   
   I thought about this idea as well some time ago, when i first read about
   NetBSD being portet to other architectures. Since I don't know what the
   platform of choice would be in the BSD ( I will use the term BSD instead
   of Free/NetBSD deliberately to avoid discussions of what should be
   used as the base OS ), I can only comment on what could be done from my
   perspective.

   [ ... ]
   
if you really want to help with the netbsd/sparc project, send mail
to majordomo@netbsd.org with no subject and a body of 'help'.  then,
when you get a reply, join the mailing lists you're interested in,
in particular, port-sparc.

somethings that are lacking at the moment:

 o  there is no fd driver
 o  the sun4 and sun4m support is non complete yet.
 o  the sun4d support has not been started (to my knowledge ;-)
 o  the rss field of a process is always bogus.

and numerous others.  contact deraadt@fsa.ca for more details, or
just ask on port-sparc.
   
   If you are interested, please contact me at my ( private ) email adress:
   kirk@brains.GUN.de ( Thomas Weyergraf )

done also.

.mrg.