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* add 'email' entity to header. This causes sgml to put link to freebsd-sparc

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* switch to use one style FreeBSD ports naming (FreeBSD/<port>)
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml,v 1.2 2001/06/06 18:17:10 obrien Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/Sparc64 Project">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml,v 1.3 2001/06/06 18:21:20 obrien Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/sparc64 Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-sparc'>
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;]>
<html>
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<li><a href="#history">Port History</a></li>
<li><a href="#status">Port Status</a></li>
<li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD/SPARC mailing
<li><a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD/sparc mailing
list</a></li>
</ul>
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<h3><a name="history">Port History</a></h3>
<p>The FreeBSD/Sparc64 platform port was initiated by Jason Evans in 1997.
<p>The FreeBSD/sparc64 platform port was initiated by Jason Evans in 1997.
Originally, the port was backed by Sun Microelectronics, but they
have since backed out. This is quite interesting, given <a
href="http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1999-12/sunflash.991214.1.html">this
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href="http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+archive/1998/freebsd-sparc/19980405.freebsd-sparc">Jason's
post</a> suggesting that somebody needed to take the reins.</p>
<p>FreeBSD/Sparc64 didn't die, however disheartening the news of Sun's
<p>FreeBSD/sparc64 didn't die, however disheartening the news of Sun's
retreat was. The mailing list did go on hiatus for a while while
several people working on coding. Late in October 1998, a source
code tarball was made available.</p>
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</blockquote>
<p>The Sparc64 platform port is in it's infancy. We've done a good bit of
research into what needs to be done in order to make FreeBSD/Sparc64 a
research into what needs to be done in order to make FreeBSD/sparc64 a
reality, but the vast majority of the work has yet to be done.</p>
<p>Here's a short history of what led up to this porting effort. Sun
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<ol>
<li><a href="#1">What happened to the old FAQ?</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">What is the status of the port?</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">What machines will FreeBSD/Sparc64 run on?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">Does FreeBSD/Sparc64 support device X?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">Will FreeBSD/Sparc64 run Solaris/SunOS binaries?</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">What machines will FreeBSD/sparc64 run on?</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">Does FreeBSD/sparc64 support device X?</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">Will FreeBSD/sparc64 run Solaris/SunOS binaries?</a></li>
</ol>
<h4><a name="1">What happened to the old FAQ?</a></h4>
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in the porting effort, you can view the <a href="#status">status</a>
online.</p>
<h4><a name="3">What machines will FreeBSD/Sparc64 run on?</a></h4>
<h4><a name="3">What machines will FreeBSD/sparc64 run on?</a></h4>
<p>Currently? None. The port is a long way away from running on
anything. We have plans to support every machine we can. It is
safe to assume that FreeBSD/Sparc64 will run on at least all PCI / IDE
safe to assume that FreeBSD/sparc64 will run on at least all PCI / IDE
based workstations. </p>
<h4><a name="4">Does FreeBSD/Sparc64 support device X?</a></h4>
<h4><a name="4">Does FreeBSD/sparc64 support device X?</a></h4>
<p>See <a href="#3">question #3</a>.</p>
<h4><a name="5">Will FreeBSD/Sparc64 run Solaris/SunOS binaries?</a></h4>
<h4><a name="5">Will FreeBSD/sparc64 run Solaris/SunOS binaries?</a></h4>
<p>It is reasonable to say that FreeBSD/Sparc64 will provide some
<p>It is reasonable to say that FreeBSD/sparc64 will provide some
Solaris/SunOS emulation. It is too early in the life of the port to
answer this any more specifically.</p>