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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SPARC operating systems (was Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 15:19:35 -0700
Organization: Me
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Message-ID: <31702877.711ECB3@lambert.org>
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Richard Tobin wrote:
]
] In article <316A2EEC.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard"
<jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
] >The FreeBSD project has currently dropped its SPARC port,
Commentary: The SPARC port was completed for 1.1.5.1 by Jack Vogel
of Sun. It was not rolled forward for the change over to the
4.4BSD code base.
] Which reminds me: is work going on on a PowerPC port?
Yes. I have a loaner machine and have been attempting to
dilligently follow VM system and other changes which are
causing me some *serious* difficulty recently, as FreeBSD
loses some of its architecture independence for support
of things like Willows (A Windows ABI that is really there
and runs most applications) and the "rundos" DOS emulator,
as well as some additional VM86() code, etc..
Most of the other stuff is tracking the main line source base,
with very little overhead, though I still have not completed
a lot of driver work (mostly console and X support, but some
devfs and PCI code is lacking as well).
The PPC port as it currently sits requires hand massaging to
install, does not support AIX or Solaris ABIs or file systems,
crashes under light console use, and can't use a file as a
swap store (VM problems).
I haven't been able to work on it for two weeks now because
we are in "crunch mode" at work again... the port is not work
related and is a side project at that.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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