Am Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2005 13:49 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > Am Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2005 10:23 schrieb Romain Dolbeau: > > So my idea is: why not go over to a kernel and libc that actually > > support all of the above ? Namely, the NetBSD kernel... > > > > Debian already has started support for NetBSD on i386 and alpha ; why > > not try and add both sparc32/v7 and sparc32/v8 (the second being able to > > re-use most of the first userland) to that list ? The regular sparc port > > would become a pure v9 port, w/o the need to support legacy HW, and > > people running Debian on sparc32 would be able to continue to do so. > > > > Of course some will say "why don't you run NetBSD then ?", which I do on > > my sun4 / sun4c (and even sun3 and sun3x :-) hardware, but I prefer > > apt-get and friends for my userland, as I'm sure others do. > > > > So, what do the sparc32 people think ? > > Would be fine with me, I have already a dual-boot (Solaris8, Debian-3.1) an > that SS20 clone, never tried NetBSD, though.
As a side-note: does NetBSD support SMP on sun4m? This is the main issue for me. HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
