Subject: Re: bootstrapping a sun4m
To: Alan Barrett <barrett@iafrica.com>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/06/1995 00:05:23
> I am trying to install NetBSD-current on a SPARCclassic (sun4m). I know
> that 1.0 won't run on the sun4m, but I assume that -current will, based on
> the existence of a SUN4M config file, and various references to sun4m in
> the kernel code.
Only a couple of the preliminary bits and pieces of sun4m code have made
it into the -current tree. Those won't get you very far if you'd actually
try to boot a Classic.
But the sun4m port is actively being worked on and there has been some
substantial progress over the past few months.
-pk