On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Brett Lymn <brett.l...@baesystems.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> >> What other community has users who commonly run upstream software on >> 64-bit big-endian strict alignment platform with register windows >> adjusting the frames in odd ways, or 32-bit big-endian ones with mutex >> alignment requirements, or a pile of other requirements. >> > > NetBSD does but they also went down the path of making cross compilation > easy so you can build all of NetBSD for, say, arm in about 20 minutes on > a modern x86 machine.
NetBSD doesn't test their system on all the machines they claim to support. OpenBSD does. If you have a very old or exotic machine, you're lucky if NetBSD boots at all, and if it does boot, you're lucky if it doesn't hardlock in the first minute of operation. OpenBSD is not like this, the hardware claimed supported is actually supported. All the people suggesting emulators remember this. -- Aram Hăvărneanu
