Subject: Re: Stable port on sparc 5 box?
To: Michael C. Ibarra <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/22/1998 14:41:22
On Mon, Aug 31, 1992 at 03:34:06AM -0400, Michael C. Ibarra wrote:
> At 04:54 PM 8/21/98 -0500, Ruibiao Qiu wrote:
> >
> >Hi all
> >
> >I just got a sparc 5 box to replace my sparc 2 box.  :)  I would
> >like to run NetBSD instead of Solaris.  However, I was told that
> >there was no stable port for sparc 5.  Is this still ture?
> 
> I am sucessfully running 1.3.2 on a sparc 10 which under SunOS is
> a sun4m arch, same as a sparc 5.

Uhm.... given the other request by Ruibiao Qiu, I strongly suspect he is
talking about an Ultra-5 (sun4u), not a Sparc 5.

Ultra-5 code is higly experimental at the moment, pre-alpha, as far as I know.

	-is