On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, matthew green wrote:

>    How hard would it be to build a snapshot of NetBSD/sparc on an ultra
>    1 running solaris 2.8? I'd like for those make builds to run a little
>    faster than what I can get on a 70mhz sparc 5.
> 
> 
> kernels aren't much of an issue, but the entire world is not that simple.
> it is possible and most of the necessary changes are in -current, but it
> requires lots of help (particularly on non-netbsd hosts).

Having done that before let me tell you it is quite painful.  If your
ultra 1 has supported hardware it's much easier to intall 32-bit NetBSD on
it and use that instead.  All you need to do is set MACHINE=sparc in your
environment.

Eduardo Horvath