Subject: Re: UltraSparcIII status
To: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
From: Evenstar <d.zanon@infinito.it>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/18/2004 12:23:32
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>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:59:03PM +0200, Evenstar wrote:
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>>I don't know if this message is related to this mailing list. If it is
>>not, please pardon me, because I'm very new...
>>Reading about (Open)BSD's battle for UltraSparcIII documentation I
>>understood that Sun doesn't want to open an "open architecture" like
>>UltraSparcIII to the BSD community. Is it true? Why does Sun behave like
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>No, you can get UltraSparc manual/datasheet from Sun website.
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> Andrey
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Thank you for replying!
It is true, but Theo de Raadt said/ "The interfaces we need are just
plain not documented" and /"/The OpenBSD project has more docs on the
"closed" hppa architecture than we do on the "open" ultrasparc III
architecture./" Why?
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