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From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] SPARC Port of v3?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:40:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006161440.PAA09802@cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200006161343.JAA22831@cse.psu.edu> from rob pike at "Jun 16, 2000 09:43:35 am"

> 	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 Given that the sources are out of date and for obsolete hardware,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.
>
I too would be disappointed to lose the ability to utilize my old
Sparc hardware. I had taken it for granted that that would be
there in the new release :-(

I take it the source you refer to here just the version I already have
with the 1995 release ?

Is there anything in there that is not already public knowledge
by virtue of the Sparc version of Linux or NetBSD? Or would support need to
be re-developed from scratch by someone who had not signed a
non-disclosure with Sun before you would be free to distribute?

Havn't had a chance to look at the source for the new release
yet (still have to get hold of a free PC with the right hardware so I can
do the cross compiling), but I was wondering how much the driver level
stuff has changed. Is there a lot of work involved in moving support
for an architecture/machine from 2nd and incorporating it into
the 3rd release system?

Regards,
DigbyT
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk


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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-16 13:43 rob pike
2000-06-16 14:40 ` Digby Tarvin [this message]
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2000-06-16 20:30 rob pike
2000-06-16 15:07 rob pike
2000-06-16 20:03 ` Digby Tarvin
2000-06-16 11:12 Jean Mehat
2000-06-15 16:29 Stephen Wynne

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