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@@ -51,28 +51,39 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Work on porting OpenBSD/sparc to the sun4m platform is currently in
-progress.  This work is being done in cooperation between the OpenBSD
-group and a research group at a US university. This research group
-wishes to remain anonymous at this time.  This work should be
-available for integration within the next few months.
+Work on porting OpenBSD/sparc to the sun4m platform was started by Theo,
+but tendonitis problems with his wrists and the problems with the NetBSD
+core conspired, and he stopped work.  Theo passed his initial sun4m work 
+to Aaron Brown of Harvard, who was paid out of Margo Seltzer's research
+funds.  This initial stuff consisted mostly of a few attempts at building
+pmap structure that could support all 3 MMU types efficiently).  Also,
+David Miller of the Sparclinux project got a little bit involved.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-OpenBSD/sparc can be correctly described as NetBSD/sparc + improvements.
+Recently Theo and Jason Downs began merging the NetBSD sparc code back into
+OpenBSD.  OpenBSD/sparc is becoming usable again.  There are still a few
+OpenBSD/sparc features from older source trees that need to be re-integrated;
+these will likely surface soon.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Recently Theo and Jason Downs began merging the NetBSD sparc code back into
-OpenBSD.  OpenBSD/sparc is becoming usable again.
+OpenBSD/sparc can be correctly described as NetBSD/sparc + improvements.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The people working the most on OpenBSD/sparc currently consists of
-Chuck Cranor, Theo de Raadt, and David Miller. Of course, others are
-very welcome!
+Theo de Raadt, Jason Downs, and probably Chuck Cranor again now that it
+once again works.
 </p>
 
+<p>
+An important note about OpenBSD/sparc is that it is designed so that
+a single kernel can run on *ALL* sparc machines.  Whereas SunOS and
+Solaris have always had `kernel architectures', ie. sun4, sun4c, and
+sun4m, the same `GENERIC' OpenBSD kernel will run on all the models. 
+</p>
+
 <hr>
 <p>
 <a href=index.html#snapshots>Snapshots are made available from time to time.</a>
@@ -141,7 +152,7 @@
 <a href=/><img src=icons/back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a> 
 <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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-<small>$OpenBSD: sparc.html,v 1.6 1996/08/14 04:42:24 downsj Exp $</small>
+<small>$OpenBSD: sparc.html,v 1.7 1996/08/14 07:08:30 deraadt Exp $</small>
 
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