[rescue] *BSD on and Indigo?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On , August 4, 2002 at 01:27:16 (+0100), Alex White wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] *BSD on Sparc?
>
> There's zilch documentation on the internals of these things? Wow.
> Explains the lack of a port easily though.

That's my understanding too.....

> Well, the offer stands. Loan
> of an SGI Indigo+mon/keyb/mouse to a NetBSD developer who'll port, in
> London or Manchester, UK.

Developers really should be given a permanent pair of machines....

It's much harder (though much less hard now with cross-build support in
NetBSD) to do a port without at least two identical machines (and a
relate development platform if the target can't self-host), and also
without a full native development environment.

It's also not much of an incentive for a portmaster to be loaned a
machine and then to have to give it up right after getting it working
(and even if such a port happens in that manner it'll soon die of
neglect unless its existance triggers other hardware to pop out of the
woodwork).

(I'm not saying you should give up your machine, or that loaning it to a
developer wouldn't also be a good thing -- just that someone's really
going to have to donate at least one, and hopefully two or more similar,
machines to the portmaster and his or her colleagues.)

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