Subject: Re: SPARCbook and PCMCIA
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Mike Parson <mparson@bl.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/27/2005 10:38:17
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:34:52AM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> Any particular userland I should try with this?
>
> Anything halfway -current will do. I build a userland last week, if
> you want I'll put it somewhere for download.

Well, I'm currently doing my NetBSD testing via netbooting and what I'm
currently serving up is 2.0.  I guess I can grab a recent current to try
out.

>> (might not be till this coming weekend that I get a chance to play
>> with this :-/)
>
> Heh, that's almost enough time to build -current on a SPARCbook ;)

=) Still faster than my VAX3100 or Amiga 3000 (IIRC, it took 8 days to
build the 1.6.2 kernel on my VAX).

>> Closer and closer to wiping my Solaris 2.6 install for NetBSD on my
>> Sparcbook. =)
>
> Let's see if the PCMCIA stuff works for you ( certainly works for me -
> I just finished building XFree86 via nfs via wlan using the new PCMCIA
> driver ). If it does we single-handedly beat Solaris here, at least in
> terms of card driver support ;)

Nice!

Looking forward to it.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org