From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200006161343.JAA22831@cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] SPARC Port of v3? From: "rob pike" Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:43:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0b1a71a-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I was disappointed to find no sources for a Sparc kernel. We don't have any modern Sparcs around here, so the old Sparc kernel was not kept up to date; the only thing we have is five years old. More important, we negotiated with Sun back in 1994 to be able to release those sources under the old license terms. We'd need to renegotiate to release them under the new terms, and that's always a lot more work than it seems it should be. (Releasing OS sources gives away details of the hardware.) Given that the sources are out of date and for obsolete hardware, it doesn't seem worthwhile. If someone can get permission from Sun and promises to update the kernel, I'll let them have the source. -rob