Subject: Re: Sparc 5 sound...
To: NetBSD Mailing List <bsdlist@stone.tmok.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/25/1996 12:54:36
On Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:25:21 -0400 
 NetBSD Mailing List <bsdlist@stone.tmok.com> wrote:

 > Hi... I was wondering if anyone was working on support for the Sparc 5 audio
 > device?

Hadn't really approacted that yet ... It'll probably be hard to do 
without proper documentation... You could probably get away with looking 
at header files exported to userland under Solaris or SunOS.  At least 
you could probably get the register layout, and other hints.  (Header 
files are OK ... they just describe an interface :-)

 > I tried out the latest NetBSD 1.2 snapshot on my SS5 and it runs quite nicely.
 > I was able to run a bunch of SunOS bins (even Netscape!) under it... great
 > job.

Great to hear!  Yes, Aaron and Paul have done a _wonderful_ job with the 
sun4m support!

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