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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Rub your feet on the carpet!
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2003 22:07:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310012205470.8761-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F7B8C11.6090503@Princeton.EDU>

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Martin Harriss wrote:

> Wouldn't a SPARC achitecture manual suffice? (Mine's at work so I can't
> check to see if it contains anything specific about the device in
> question...)

no, the arch manual is pretty useless if you're going to port an OS. That
is by design. Ask anybody who tried to get BSD on this thing (or any SPARC
for that matter) ca. 10 years ago.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02  4:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01 21:25 northern snowfall
2003-10-02  2:23 ` Martin Harriss
2003-10-02  4:07   ` ron minnich [this message]
2003-10-02  7:04     ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02  8:15       ` northern snowfall
2003-10-02  8:58         ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-02  8:16       ` northern snowfall
2003-10-02 13:58       ` ron minnich
2003-10-02  4:33   ` northern snowfall
2003-10-02  3:54     ` Bruce Ellis

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