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!

Thank you,
david