On 2019/12/03 16:47, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019/12/03 17:25, Lars Schotte wrote: > > And, yes, with the syspatches for mips64, that's what I wanted to hint. > > That would be very nice. I have one x86_64 VM running and syspatches > > are very useful there, because it is fast and just works. That's one of > > the best features in OpenBSD lately. > > They are handy for those few machines where it's difficult to run -current > (I don't have so many of those though, even with "production" machines), > but realistically those developers who are building and signing syspatches > have a lot to deal with for the existing architectures - adding more is > quite likely not really viable. > > This is one of the factors that users should consider when deciding to > use a less common arch. >
I should add: if more people had been running -current on their mips64 boxes, the bug may have been caught before release.
