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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NetBSD Hardware Project
Date: 09 Oct 1994 04:16:08 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: kirk@brains.GUN.de's message of Fri, 7 Oct 1994 02:37:26 GMT
In article <1994Oct7.023726.2488@brains.GUN.de> kirk@brains.GUN.de (Thomas Weyergraf) writes:
: : NetBSD to the Power PC architecture. But I am still interested in
: I think this is where it currently stands -- there are lots of people
: interested in seeing it done, but nobody has stepped forward and
: started doing it. I'm sure the NetBSD core team would be ecstatic to
: lend any advice necessary to anyone wanting to initiate such a
: project.
Like I stated before:
If this project would be based on SPARC, I would happily step forward and
do my very best to move it in the right direction. I am honestly willing to
devote my precious spare time ( and more ) to realize this project.
Um, I don't think you've been paying attention. There is already a
completely functional version of NetBSD/sparc running. While you
could certainly make the somewhat trivial task of making the Sparc
port run on your hardware, the port itself already exists. This
person was asking about initiating a completely new port.
If you want to get the Sparc port working on your hardware, I suggest
you get in touch with the people working on the existing NetBSD/sparc
port. You might do so by getting in touch with Theo Deraadt at
deraadt@NetBSD.org.
Please give us ( me ) your serious ( only ) comments about the platform
of choice.
There is no platform of choice -- NetBSD runs on a wide range of
platforms.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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