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OpenBSD Requests UltraSPARC III Documentation

Posted by michael on from the please-kind-sir dept.

An anonymous submitter writes "OpenBSD wants to run on all hardware. They've asked Sun for documentation on the UltraSPARC III processors over and over, but been stonewalled. Theo recently asked users to talk to Sun about this issue. A fairly complete thread archive can be found here. The real kicker is that Sun has released this documentation through an NDA to Linux developers..."

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  1. slashdotting the phone number... by dk379 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have just read Theo's pledge to users and looks like there is a person's name listed who appears to be a sole decision maker on this issue.

    I wonder how many phone calls it would take for him to get it ;-)

  2. Theo seems very Pro-SPARC by Hobart · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From the thread:
    From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
    Date: 2002-11-26 9:15:45

    > Would you go BUY a $7000 single CPU Sun because it ran OpenBSD?

    I intend to replace cvs.openbsd.org with just such a machine when the
    time comes, precisely because sparc64 is the highest performance
    architecture supporting per-page X bit protection.
    And when you guys think this through, and realize what I mean by that,
    you'll want one too.
    You'd think Sun would be nicer to him.
    --
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