Subject: Re: Port-s390
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Sridhar Ayengar <sridhar@ikickass.org>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 04/01/2001 19:55:37
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> Currently, I am not aware of anyone working on an S/390 port. A few people
> did toy around with the Hercules emulator, but no porting effort has
> begun so far. So of course it'd be great if you could start the work
> on this, especially given your position.

I think I would have an easier time of it, since I have access to actual
hardware.

> If there's a platform that NetBSD can run on, NetBSD shall run on it
> someday, it is our mission :-)

Cool 8-)

> We can set up a seperate mailing list for this port to begin with;
> once it gets going, we can provide the people who wrote the code
> with commit access to the NetBSD CVS tree.

If you can set this up, I would appreciate it.  I won't be able to start
actual work on the port for a couple of weeks, but it would be good to get
discussion going.

> - Frank (speaking with his Core hat on)
> 
> -- 
> Frank van der Linden                           fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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Peace...  Sridhar