thus Davide Zanon spake:
> On Monday 09 May 2005 19:48, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> 
>>>>hm,
>>>>
>>>>what about that nice pair of USIII CPUs and NetBSD's lack of support for
>>>>them?
>>>
>>>I've heard somewhere that Sun were withholding technical information
>>>about some platforms with UltraSparcIII CPUs, thums making it difficult
>>>to support them. Don't know if it's true or not...
> 
> 
> Me too, I had read something about that, and Theo De Raadt was very angry with 
> Sun for the lack of help they had given him, and he saw the cause of this in 
> Sun's fear to help non-GPLed projects, as other companies could learn too 
> much of the UltraSPARC III architecture from a BSD-licensed code... I don't 
> know if everything's true, and I don't hope so, but... The last time I asked 
> this on this mailing list (it was last summer) some people told me it was 
> just lack of time and, above all, hardware. And I trust them, as I can't find 
> the time to write an hello world program anymore at sixteen years old ;)
> 
> 
>>yip,
>>
>>AFAIR this was on a PCI-to-xyz (or from-xyz) bridge. however, i saw on a
>>freebsd mailing list that they're working on it (the US-III support). IIRC.
> 
> 
> COOL! Nice info for us all!

perhaps one should contact one of those 'open source is so cool --
that's why we open Solaris'-guys like jonathan schwartz and tell him a
little bit on i) Sun's donation (which could be even more useful) and
ii) NetBSD and it's open source character, blabla.

cheerio,

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