Subject: Re: sparc64 development schedule
To: None <martin@duskware.de>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 05/22/2007 08:00:12
Martin Husemann wrote:
>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:16:39PM +0100, Raymond Meyer wrote:
>> [..] What are the
>> major projects that the developers are working on right now, SMP support, USIII
>> support, getting compat_netbsd32 fixed?

>Only can speak for myself: SMP is next (we are mostly there), and then
>USIII/+ support.

>I have not followed the compat_netbsd32 emulation developement closely, is
>there a lot not working? I thought it would be mostly mount(8), so booting a
>sparc64 with sparc / on NFS would get you a working system (different to
>amd64/i386 we have no problem with device numbers).

There is quite a bit of stuff missing from the functions that read/write
the mcontext struct in arch/sparc64/sparc64/netbsd32_machdep.c.

Robert Swindells