Re: Port help wanted/needed?

[John Carr <jcarr%poethecat.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 07:38:20PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> It's appreciated to simply try 5.0_BETA GENERIC kernel on your 3/60.
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5/200901210002Z/sun3/
> (it will work even on 4.0.1 userland, without full upgrade)
> After 4.0, I added bus_dma(9) support to sun3 and made si(4) SCSI
> use bus_dma(9) API, but it was only tested on si(4) at at vme
> on TME emulating 3/1x0, and AFAIK there is no report about
> si(4) at obio on 3/60.
> http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-sun3/2007/02/oindex.html

Ok. Will do. I'll start on this today then and begin testing it. I'll
let you know if if it even boots. :)

Work working with -current or _BETA, where's the best place to mention
issues? Here or gnats? I'm not sure how much gnats is used for bug
reports against non-releases.

> (no one has noticed that even 4.0.1 GENERIC didn't boot on 3/60
>  until you reported it...)

Very true. I'll give it a thorough testing.

What's the latest on 3/50 support, by the way? I remember a thread from
about '05 or so that mentioned that either miniroot or the INSTALL kernel 
was too big now to boot. Has anyone even attempted it?

(and yeah, I'm guessing the amount of folks out there trying to use
NetBSD on a 3/50 is probably down to about 1 at the most, but I'm
curious)
to even boot