Subject: Re: Incorrect information on www.netbsd.org
To: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/16/1999 10:55:28
On 16 Jun 1999 11:06:46 +0200
Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com> wrote:
> NetBSD no longer works on important machines, but www.netbsd.org claims
> otherwise. I have run NetBSD on my Alphas and Macintoshes for several
> years, but 1.4 just panics on all machines I have tried so far. My and
> other people's bug reports are silently ignored.
What do you mean? I haven't heard a single bug report from you regarding
crashes on Alpha systems. (And, I read the port-alpha list pretty thoroughly,
considering that I do most of my development work on Alphas.)
> Therefore, please stop claiming support for Alpha PC164LX and similar
> systems, as well as support for Macs such as the 9600. I get reports in
> private mail that there are identical panics for many other Mac systems too.
> (My macppc install instructions are used by many people, and then I get
> report about the install failures.)
>
> NetBSD 1.4 is the first NetBSD release I have come across that has caused me
> any problems whatsoever. All previous releases have worked great. But
> NetBSD 1.4 fails to operate at all on the systems I have tried so far.
Fails to operate HOW?
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>