[rescue] *BSD on Sparc?

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

>On August 3, vraptor at employees.org wrote:
>> Should've looked a bit myself.  The only FreeBSD port going on
>> Sun hardware-wise is for sun4u.
>
>  It is my understanding that Sun funded at least some of the FreeBSD
>SPARC porting effort...only for UltraSPARC machines.

A "history" lesson at the FreeBSD port site debunks this.  Apparently
Sun offerred, and was turned down.  Later the project was picked
up independently--not sure why.

>> It looks like something called "RAIDframe" from CMU for NetBSD
>> might be a possibility.  Or maybe I'll turn the SS20 into the
>> firewall and reclaim the current FreeBSD x86 firewall box to
>> learn vinum.
>
>  RAIDframe has been integrated into NetBSD for some time.  It works
>well.

I'll have to check it out.  One more OS to add to the resume. :-)

=Nadine=