Subject: Re: How many pc532 still running ...
To: Ken Seefried <ken@seefried.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-pc532
Date: 12/19/2001 00:37:57
"Ken Seefried" <ken@seefried.com> writes:
> Perry E. Metzger writes:
> > The problem is that pc532s typically have no network access, and
> > it is hard to netboot them, which makes doing evil kernel hacking and
> > testing hard.
> 
> Network acces can be handled by a Cabletron box, or a PPP link to a
> Cisco (something which I've done before).

You can't use a machine for kernel hacking and testing that way.

> In any case, I didn't see a colo'ed pc532 as a kernel hacking box.
> Rather, it would be for folks working in user-land that wouldn't
> otherwise have access to an ns32532 box.

I don't think anyone wants to make Mozilla work on a pc532. Keeping
the port alive at this point consists of testing the compilers and
system builds.

Perry
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